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Family doctors and nurse practitioners have been told they will not be receiving deliveries of flu or COVID-19 vaccines in time for the fall immunization program launch later this month. And it is unclear if they will get any at all.

In a recent memo from Alberta Health, physicians and nurse practitioners were told they would not be able to access key vaccines this fall.

The memo, obtained by CBC News, said the distribution of provincially funded vaccines to medical and nurse practitioner clinics was "temporarily paused" in April when a contract with the distribution company expired.

"At this time, Alberta Health has not been successful in contracting a distributor to ship vaccines to community medical and nurse practitioner clinics," it stated.

It went on to say a recent expression of interest had closed and no submissions were received.

"As a result, a vendor for vaccine distribution will not be in place by October 15 for the start of the influenza and COVID vaccine program."

Penrod hasn't been able to access other key publicly funded vaccines for several months, including the pertussis shot (Tdap).
That means pregnant patients, for whom the the vaccine is recommended, have to go elsewhere.
"[Whooping cough] is actually a very, very dangerous illness for infants. So that gives those babies a little bit of passive immunity from their mom until they can get their own shots," she said.

"Routinely in my office I would be vaccinating those pregnant people just because they're coming for their prenatal [appointment] anyway. So I haven't been able to do that. I'm having to send people away a lot."

Even people who come in injured and needing stitches have to be sent elsewhere if their tetanus shot is not up to date, she said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...nics-1.7341997

OK, what in the actual #### is going on in this province??? You can't even go to your clinic to get a whooping cough or tetanus shot? Is this 1905? This is a malicious failure of our elected representatives. This isn't an accident, or a technical issue, or a business issue. It is a purposeful attempt to reduce immunization in this province. They've had since long before April to address this, if they actually wanted to. Which they don't. More people will get sick and die.

And that's on you DUMB ASS MOTHER####ERS WHO ELECTED THIS BULL#### BATCH OF IDIOTIC ####FACES. #### YOU TODAY AND FOREVER. Unreal.