‘Preferred vaccines’ messaging from federal panel sparks concern, criticism from health experts – CBC

mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna are the preferred vaccines, according to NACI

May 05, 2021

Canadians should take the first vaccine that becomes available to them even though the federal government’s advisory committee on vaccines may have sown confusion with conflicting messaging about preferred doses, some health experts say.

“I really worry about a situation where Canada will be the only country in the world where we’ve managed to create buyer’s remorse about a vaccine we’ve provided free of charge to Canadians to protect them,” Dr. David Naylor, co-chair of the national COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, told CBC’s Heather Hiscox.

On Monday, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization, an independent body of experts that makes recommendations on the use of newly approved vaccines, said Canadians who are less likely to contract COVID-19 may want to wait until an mRNA shot from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna is available because those products don’t carry the same risk of very rare, but serious, blood clots.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/vaccine-hesitancy-naci-health-experts-1.6012961

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