2023-10-10 22:19:14
Many Quebec citizens have responded to Quebec Health’s call encouraging them to renew their vaccination protection against COVID-19 and influenza.
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In a Montreal center, everyone had personal reasons motivating their decision.
“Every weekend I go to see my 75-year-old grandfather,” explained a young woman.
“I am a secondary school teacher, and I find that it is important to protect my students, as well as myself,” said one man.
- Listen to the interview with Dr Luc Boileau, Quebec’s national director of public health on Alexandre Dubé’s show via QUB radio :
Nearly 600,000 Quebecers have already made an appointment.
“We hope that all this vaccination will reduce hospitalizations,” said a nurse.
Downside: pharmacies received fewer doses of COVID-19 vaccines than expected.
Nearly 11,000 vaccination appointments had to be canceled across the province due to these supply problems.
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