Provincial officials wait for Health Canada to give the thumbs up on the use of the Moderna vaccine.
Ottawa has secured 168,000 doses of that COVID-19 vaccine, which begs the question how many Ontarians will receive that vaccine?
“We don’t know how many Moderna vaccines are coming to us, we don’t know when they’ll arrive and we don’t even know when they’re going to be approved but we’re ready when they come and we’re going to move them as quickly and expeditiously as we can,” says Rick Hillier, the chair of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force.
The chair of the vaccine distribution task force notes the priority is to get the Moderna vaccine, which can be more easily transported than the Pfizer vaccine, into long term care homes and COVID-19 hot spots.
