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The injection of the fourth doses of vaccine against COVID-19 is coming to an end, like all mass vaccination of adults in Quebec.
No less than 4,141 fourth doses of vaccine were injected into Quebec arms last Friday. On the same day, 1291 third doses, 515 second doses and 245 first doses were administered, for a total of 6192 injections on the busiest day of last week.
At the height of its vaccination campaign, Quebec was vaccinating at a rate of nearly 100,000 arms per day.
Just 20 million doses of vaccine against COVID-19 have been administered in total in Quebec since December 13, 2020. These inoculations have saved “thousands, even tens of thousands” of lives, estimates Dr. Nicholas Brousseau , member of the Quebec Committee on Immunization.
Thanks to these vaccines and to the contaminations, collective immunity therefore seems “fairly good”, and the mass vaccination campaign can therefore be coming to an end… “for the moment”, nuances Dr Brousseau. “It’s not a given forever. That can change quickly if there’s a mutation in the virus. »
His team is working on a relaunch of vaccination in the fall, in the event of a new situation. This deal (the arrival of a new variant), no one can predict with certainty. “We’re going to have to be flexible and responsive,” he says. But we still have a few months to breathe. »
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