COVID-19 vaccine.In a statement Tuesday, Alberta Health spokesperson Tom McMillan said since there are no known future shipments of AstraZeneca at this time, a determination was made to utilize the remaining supply as second doses.
Alberta ‘temporarily pausing’ use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for those under 55 “Unlike with AstraZeneca, Alberta is receiving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in large and consistent shipments,” McMillan said. “More than 236,000 doses are arriving this week alone.”“Alberta has administered approximately 255,000 first doses of AstraZeneca and 2,200 second doses.
The remaining supply of about 8,400 doses will be used as second doses.”Use of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been under added scrutiny in recent.