Health Canada approval of the new COVID vaccine might come as early as this week
The newest COVID-19 vaccines, if approved by Health Canada, are expected to arrive in B.C. at the end of September, with shots to be delivered in early October, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monday.
The latest formulation of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna has been under review by Health Canada and Henry hopes the vaccine — Moderna had its application in first — will be approved this week. The COVID-19 vaccine in B.C. is now seen as similar to the flu shot, created annually to match as close as possible the strain of virus or viruses in circulation, said Henry.In recent weeks, the province has seen a rise in COVID-19 numbers with cases, hospitalizations and deaths all up.
The centre says the number of deaths rose from eight in the first week of the reporting period to 15, then dipped to 12. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, seems to be following the pattern of other respiratory viruses, like influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, which start to ramp up in the fall, Henry said
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