WINNIPEG — Manitoba children ages six months to four years will soon be able to get a COVID\u002D19 vaccine.
The province is set to distribute the Moderna vaccine that was recently approved for young children.
“If your child doesn’t fit these initial criteria … we should be receiving more doses in the near future — by the end of this month or early August,” Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s chief public health officer, said Wednesday.As for adults, Roussin said Manitoba has no immediate plan to expand eligibility for second booster shots to everyone over 18, as Ontario and Alberta have done.
The province is not expanding that eligibility for the time being because data shows one booster provides good protection against severe outcomes, such as hospitalization among people who are not high-risk, Roussin said.
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