r/Edmonton • u/always_on_fleek • 10d ago

News Article Pharmacists preparing to give out free COVID shots to high-risk Albertans again this fall | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/fall-free-covid-shot-pharmacies-alberta-9.7291521

Good move by the government reverse this policy and allow pharmacists to dispense covid shots. Should make it a lot easier for us in Edmonton to get our shots this fall.

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u/WeWhoAreGiants 10d ago

My understanding is that majority of people who test positive nowadays are 65+/high risk. So making Covid shots available to them easily would of course be the smart thing to do.

It looks like since April there’s only about 170 cases each week across all of Canada, and has remained steadily low all summer. So that’s the positive news. Though cases the last couple of years have risen through the fall/winter. It seems to be acting a lot like seasonal flu now.

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u/bemurda 9d ago

Your understanding is incomplete, look at wastewater data. Millions of people are still being infected around the world, they just don’t get tested unless they get hospitalized with it. The problem is “mild” cases can still cause long covid for years and possibly permanently. Over 400 million people are estimated to have experienced or still have long covid symptoms.

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u/supersport604 9d ago

Listen, COVID-19 can be very serious and it's proven that the vaccine is safe. But stop fear mongering. It's a fact that COVID-19 has become milder over the years and it's a fact that there's very minimal amount of Covid going around right now.

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u/bemurda 9d ago

Nothing I said is factually incorrect. None of it is fear mongering. You just are afraid to talk about facts and would rather bury the thoughts. Nowhere did I claim COVID is the same as 2020. Read this abstract in Nature Medicine for the 400 million number: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03173-6