People line up for hours to get AstraZeneca vaccine as B.C. drops age eligibility to 30 – CBC
The line snaked for blocks outside the suburban Vancouver clinic
Apr 27, 2021
A four-hour lineup snaked outside a sports complex in Coquitlam, B.C. on Tuesday when the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine was made available for the first time to people over the age of 30 in “hot spot” communities.
Alexis Hidlebaugh learned about the clinic — held at the Poirier Forum in the suburb just east of Vancouver — in a text from her landlord and rushed there with her husband, Mark Bahnman.
“We checked the website to make sure it was 30-plus and we weren’t overstepping if we came,” Hidlebaugh told CBC News.
“We figured, worst-case scenario, a nurse could turn us away.”
Hidlebaugh and Bahnman are both in their 30s.
