Alberta Vaccination

• Flu, COVID fall boosters coming to Alberta in mid-October

  Doses can start going into arms on Oct. 16 and the province will open fall appointments in the online booking portal for AHS clinics or pharmacies on Oct. 10.

  Canada

  Sep 28, 2023
  
• Alberta doctors urge vaccinations as influenza deaths mount

  To Dec. 31, 2022, 77 Albertans had their deaths attributed to influenza. That number is approaching double the decade’s average.

  Health

  Jan 6, 2023
  
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• Alberta expects to be vaccinating children under 5 against COVID-19 by end of July

  The province is finalizing details to get shots for hundreds of thousands of Albertan kids.

  Health

  Jul 14, 2022
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• Why parts of Alberta are seeing extremely low COVID-19 vaccination rates

  Parts of Alberta are still seeing extremely low rates of vaccination against COVID-19.

  Health

  Sep 15, 2021
• Calgary Emergency Management Agency flummoxed on low vaccination rates in east Calgary: ‘not for lack of desire’

  Why one side of the city is getting vaccinated against COVID-19 and another isn’t remains a mystery to Calgary’s Emergency Management Agency (CEMA).

  Health

  May 25, 2021
• Staffing Alberta COVID-19 vaccine clinics ‘a challenge’ amid re-deployment, at-home school

  Alberta Health Services said with in-person school suspended until May 25 in a bid to curb surging COVID-19 cases, there will be an impact on its workforce.

  Education

  May 12, 2021
• Trudeau pledges federal supports to Calgary, Edmonton amid 3rd COVID-19 wave

  The federal government “stands ready to assist in any way we can,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote.

  Canada

  May 6, 2021
• ‘A cautious relief:’ COVID-19 vaccinations to begin at two Alberta meat plants

  Both the Cargill plant, near High River south of Calgary, and the JBS Canada facility in Brooks, Alta., were hit hard by outbreaks last year.

  Health

  Apr 29, 2021
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• Vaccination clinic at Alberta’s Cargill meat-packing plant postponed

  A COVID-19 vaccination clinic has been postponed at a southern Alberta meat-packing plant, where last year nearly half the workers contracted COVID-19 and two employees died.

  Health

  Apr 21, 2021
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• Plans underway for COVID-19 vaccination clinic at southern Alberta meat-packing plant

  Plans are underway to establish an immunization clinic in the Cargill meat packing plant that saw a major COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.

  Health

  Apr 8, 2021