Alberta premier defends charging Albertans for COVID-19 vaccinations, questions its effectiveness
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said that his government’s new policy, which forced many Albertans to pay the COVİD-19 from his pocket for the vaccination of Covid-19, is about focusing on the most needed.
The Federal Government can create a country -wide precedent after holding the Covid shots responsible earlier this year.
Speaking on Saturday, the government’s call after the movement, Smith said at the radio show, said that 135 million dollars “destroyed the evacuation ıyla with doses of partially wasted last year because Albertans is increasingly prefers not to go.
“I think this, if you want the truth, especially because it doesn’t work well,” Smith said.
Alberta’nın 4.8 million residents are slightly below 14 percent, was vaccinated for the virus last season.
“The healthy ones, those who choose to do this, because they talked to their doctors, they will have a little less priority,” he said.
Smith’s government will pay some of them to shoot, including those in social programs, including immune systems. The elderly in a congregation environment will also be discussed.
Smith said it was part of the taxpayer’s effort to make more explosion for his money.
“We believe in the choice of vaccine, but we don’t pay for everything,” he said.
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Last year, he drew attention to higher influenza vaccine rates, which were fixed by 21 percent and showed that Covid vaccines did not fit the activity of others, including measles.
Alberta, struggling with an increase in measles cases that have not been seen for almost 40 years, says that 95 percent vaccination rate is necessary to protect the population of experts.
Smith’s United Conservative Party government does not yet know that Albertans, including many elderly over 65 years of age, will have to pay for a Covid shot. Each one predicts it might be $ 110.
Routine influenza vaccines will continue to be explained to the public.
Public Health experts in Alberta say that the state’s new Covid policy will mean more obstacles to vaccination and higher costs for things such as hospitalization and serious complications.
He is a doctor and a specialist in infectious diseases at the University of Alberta. Lynora Saxinger, Canada on Saturday, said that both Covid and Influenza vaccines were formulated according to seasonal changes, so Smith’s priority was surprising, he said.
“They are probably quite similar to how much potential they have to prevent severe illness – hospitalization, death, and then all other things that come in both influenza and Covid’s heels,” he said.
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For those who are 65 years and older, pneumonia, heart attack and the risk of stroke is much higher after a patient passes Covid or influenza, so that vaccination can significantly reduce the risk.
In a news bulletin, Smith’s government, by the US Food and Pharmaceutical Administration, anti -vaccine defender Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. The US Federal Health Agency proposed to stop vaccines for healthy pregnant women and healthy children.
Alberta’s primary and preventive health Minister Adriana Lagrange rejected the Canadian interview request.
His office also refused to say whether Lagrange’s Covid vaccine is “not working well”.
Lagrange Press Secretary Maddison McKkee said in a statement late on Friday night that the government followed the national guidance.
However, on Saturday, McKEE confirmed that the state advised the state of the Canadian National Immunity Committee that health workers received a chance.
McKEE said in a statement, “Health workers who do not fall into a higher risk group will be entitled to buy vaccines,” he said.
Saxinger said that vaccination of workers is not only about preventing a professional risk, it is about protecting patients.
Influenza data, health workers, if you vaccinate, unprotected people show that you reduce the rate of mortality, he said.
The opposition has been accusing the UCP of being anti -vaccination for a long time, and asked the government to better encourage overcoming public health benefits.
NDP Health Critic Sarah Hoffman said on Friday to blame Albertans, who wants to protect their health and loved ones.
Calgary Hardcastle, Professor of Health Law, warned the health system about potential extra costs and worried that Albertans received the message that vaccines were not so important.
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