Pharmacist Maulik (Max) Patel administers a flu vaccine at the Pharmasave Kinniburgh in Chestermere on Monday. Jim Wells/Postmedia

If family doctors can't give COVID-19 and flu shots, it could hurt access for kids: expert

Alberta Health says it will not provide vaccines to family physicians and nurses for distribution, limiting the choice for Albertans

by · Calgary Herald

Not making COVID-19 and flu vaccines available to family physicians could limit the number of people getting shots for the incoming respiratory virus season, including children and teenagers, according to an expert.

“I’m concerned about the patients who no longer have what was a known and a trusted source of vaccination that is their family physician as an option this season,” said Dr. Cora Constantinescu, a pediatrician at Alberta Children’s hospital.