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Alberta needs to change tactics to improve 5-11 COVID vaccination rate: study

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University of Alberta researchers.And with booster doses going out to kids in the same age group on Wednesday, one author of a new study said “public health has a bit of work on their hands.”“Our study showed that although a good proportion of folks got their first dose for their kids, second dose dropped off a little bit,” Dr.

Shannon MacDonald, associate professor of nursing and public health at the University of Alberta, told Global News.“So even people who are willing to vaccinate their kids are either forgetting or not getting around to the second dose.

And now we’re saying, ‘Okay, time for a third dose.’” Alberta’s COVID-19 review has potential to change future pandemic responses, say experts A preprint study published on Tuesday showed the older the child in the age group, the more likely they were to have been vaccinated.It also showed that children in cities, in wealthier households and in public or publicly-funded Catholic schools were more likely to be vaccinated than their counterparts.Using Ministry of Health vaccination data, MacDonald’s team looked at trends and demographic data of vaccination of young kids from November 2021 to June 2022.“It really looked like the vast majority of parents who have vaccinated their kids did it right off the hop.

So in the first two months that the vaccine program was out, there was a big increase in coverage and then it sort of tapered off,” MacDonald said.“If we want to get vaccine coverage higher — which we do — we’re probably going to have to start thinking about some new approaches rather than just continuing with the status quo.”MacDonald, whose research centres around immunization best practices, programs and policies, suggested leveraging existing technology for.

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