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- 6/17/2021
AstraZeneca second dose 'good choice' despite federal guidance: B.C.'s Dr. Bonnie Henry
New guidance from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization Thursday said Pfizer or Moderna is preferred as a second dose. - 6/17/2021
Quebec's threat to penalize FPs who don't have a minimum number of patients still has steps to go
Quebec still has steps to go before it can penalize FPs who don't take a minimum number of patients. - 6/17/2021
POLL: What is the top thing Canada can do to help vaccinate the world?
So, what is the top thing Canada can do to help vaccinate the world? Vote on what you think in our weekly news poll. - 6/17/2021
The Sex Issue? Really?
The pandemic put pressure on lots of things: including doctors’ relationships. - 6/17/2021
Black Alberta doc testifies noose tied by white colleague made him feel threatened, was part of pattern
A government-ordered external report concluded the incident was inappropriate but not racist. However, Dr. Onwuanyi alleged a deeper pattern of problematic behaviour on Dr. Wessel’s part. - 6/17/2021
Ontario still offering option of AstraZeneca as second shot after new NACI guidance
The province's position comes after the National Advisory Committee on Immunization said yesterday that people who got AstraZeneca as a first shot should get the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna mRNA vaccines as a second. - 6/16/2021
Tone deaf CFPC fails its members, embarrasses itself
Dr. Sohail Gandhi argues that the recent Canadian Family Physician editorial titled “Family medicine is not a business” is insulting to the work family doctors are doing every day during the pandemic and that the assertions in it by the author Dr. Roger Ladouceur are baseless in their attacks on family doctors. - 6/16/2021
Pfizer, Moderna vaccines now preferred second dose for AstraZeneca recipients: NACI
Previously, NACI had said AstraZeneca recipients could choose whether to get a second dose of the same vaccine, or an mRNA vaccine.