“you can see the change around that date,” musyj said. “we’re going in the right direction, but going indoors more means we can’t let our guard down.”
the light at the end of the tunnel brightened a little this week when pfizer began to submit data to health canada for its trials for children five to 12 years old.
the company found youngsters only need a third of the adult dosage for the vaccine to be effective.
“what we’re hearing is american thanksgiving time will be the time that it will be available.”
musyj said the health canada will study speeding the process up by taking smaller dosages from existing adult vials rather than wait for child-specific vials.
“there’s a lot of hope that it’ll be the quicker process,” musyj said. “it could be sooner than american thanksgiving if they approve using the adult vials.”
wrh’s chief operating officer, chief nursing executive and vice-president of critical care and cardiology karen riddell said visitations by school-aged children to the paediatric urgent medical assessment clinic and the ouellette campus have levelled off in in recent days after a rapid escalation with schools opening.
on wednesday there were 136 visitations between the two sites. there have been 2,067 children tested at puma since the end of august.