Alberta and Saskatchewan have both asked for J\u0026J doses to reach vaccine hesitant people who don’t want to take mRNA vaccines
One senior government official who spoke to the National Post on the condition they not be named, said they focused on Pfizer and Moderna deliveries because that was what provinces and the public were looking for.On August 12, the government announced Canada’s 10 million-dose order of Johnson & Johnson vaccines would be donated to COVAX, an international group pushing to vaccinate the developing world.
The federal government ordered hundreds of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines from multiple companies, but the vast majority of the shots that actually went into Canadians arms were either Pfizer or Moderna. The company is expected to have more doses of its vaccine in the fall, but it cut its original production estimate for this year in half.
The vaccine was initially planned as a single dose regimen, but the company recently applied to American regulators to have it given as a booster shot, with a second dose increasing the vaccine’s effectiveness.
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