How Canada’s vaccines make it from the factory to your arm – CBC

Canada isn’t yet producing its own vaccines, so each dose must take a logistically complicated path

May 19, 2021

You walk into the vaccination centre at the Palais des congrès, Montreal’s downtown convention centre, and the operation is almost like a dance.

Soon, the vaccine’s in your arm and you are on your way. From afar, it looks like a well-oiled operation, with people gliding from one table to the next.

But it’s the complex organization behind the scenes — including the preparation of vaccines, dose by dose — that makes it possible.

“Every morning, the first thing I do when I get here is to check the amount of doses we have ready and make sure it corresponds to the number of appointments for the day,” said Camille Bouchard-Coulombe, the associate director of the mass vaccination site at the Palais.

Bouchard-Coulombe is one of several people working behind the scenes at the Palais — and other vaccination sites across the province — making sure everyone who wants a vaccine gets one, and that no dose is wasted.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/how-vaccines-make-it-from-factory-to-arm-1.6029324