As Quebec’s most vulnerable get 4th dose, expert says everyone else should at least have 3rd – CBC

Quebec residents aged 60 and up will be eligible for 4th dose starting Monday

Apr 07, 2022

After 75-year-old Robert Lemieux battled cancer, he and his wife aren’t taking any chances. He got his fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.

“I’m here because I believe in having as many vaccines as possible,” he said with a laugh. “I just don’t want to catch it.”

The couple visited a new vaccination clinic on de Maisonneuve Boulevard East, near the Berri-UQAM Metro station in Montreal, which was set up this week to replace the one that was long located at the Palais des congrès downtown.

Quebec residents 70 and older are now eligible for another booster shot, and next week it will be open to those 60 and up. The province is working to get a head start on issuing the fourth shot to fend off the sixth wave.

“The vaccination strategy has evolved a lot,” said Jean Nicolas Aubé, a spokesperson for the local health authority, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-fourth-dose-vaccination-1.6411169