With all the deserved fanfare over the rollout of three thousand doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech formula to begin vaccinating health care workers in Ottawa today- when so for the Valley?
Health Canada’s initially-approved Pfizer-BioNtech candidate requires specialized storage arrangements, and will be available at fourteen sites across the country.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of Renfrew Victoria Hospital, Julia Boudreau, that means RVH will continue to play a waiting game.
The Moderna vaccine, currently about to be considered for approval by Health Canada does not require the extremely cold storage, and, as such, may be more suitable to the less urban of Canada’s communities.