The Premiers, including Andrew Furey, met on a conference call last night to talk about the roll-out of a vaccine for COVID-19 whenever one should become available. There is general consensus that the most vulnerable should be first to receive it.
Canada is currently reviewing three potential vaccines which, under the best-case scenario, would result in 3-million Canadians being vaccinated in early 2021.
Nothing has yet been approved by Health Canada or the Food and Drug Administration in the US, but Premier Furey says whenever that does happen, Newfoundland and Labrador would receive a proportionate supply. He says the roll-out will be done in a coherent, calm, evidence-based manner.
He says there is a general consensus that the triage would involve people in long-term care homes, the elderly, the Indigenous population and health care workers would be first to receive the vaccine.
