Kids under 12 in Alberta face months-long gap in COVID vaccine availability – CBC
Province expects new vaccines in the fall and says most Albertans ‘will be required to pay the full costs’
Jul 30, 2025
Shuhiba Mohammad recently took her daughter for her routine childhood immunizations at age 1, and was frustrated when she was told she’d have to book a separate appointment to get a COVID vaccine.
Then, when she called Alberta Health Service’s 811 phone number to book an appointment, she learned her child couldn’t get a COVID shot, at all.
“I was on the phone for about 45 minutes and somebody got back to me that the Moderna vaccine — that was the COVID vaccine given to children under the age of 12 — was expired as of June 17 … and so there is no opportunity to vaccinate a child under 12 for COVID until the fall,” she said.
“So we’re kind of in a little bit of a limbo, where she’s going to have no immunity to COVID and we’ve just started daycare.”
