coronavirus first, along with the people who take care of them.The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) first issued preliminary guidelines about a month ago.
They included general categories of “key populations” who should get the vaccine first, but no ranked system of who among those should top the list.Committee chair Dr.
Caroline Quach-Thanh tells Global News once the NACI learned Canada would be getting even fewer doses of the vaccine than expected in the first round — six million, enough for three million people with two doses required — it “had no choice” but to recommend a ranked system.Quach-Thanh said that after people connected to long-term care are immunized, elderly Canadians over age 80 should be next.