COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.

Vaccinations are up this year over last year, but there are enough doses to go around, BC’s health ministry says.

There are plenty more vaccine doses to go around. The Health Ministry said it has ordered 1.94 million doses of the 2025-26 influenza vaccine and 1.4 million doses of the updated #COVID19 vaccines. Michelle Gamage reports. 💉 #bcpoli #bccovid https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/27/No-COVID-Vaccination-Appointments-Check-Again-Later/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

There are plenty more vaccine doses to go around. The Health Ministry said it has ordered 1.94 million doses of the 2025-26 influenza vaccine and 1.4 million doses of the updated #COVID19 vaccines. Michelle Gamage reports. 💉 #bcpoli #bccovid https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/27/No-COVID-Vaccination-Appointments-Check-Again-Later/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

On August 13th the Government of Alberta announced that it would [keep in place current levels of COVID-19 restrictions](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-ndp-david-shepherd-deena-hinshaw-jason-kenney-1.6139605). Earlier, there had been plans to lift some control measures on August 16th, with planned changes including removing mask mandates, changes to COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, and removing mandatory isolation for those testing positive. The argument had been that the current level of vaccination was sufficient and Alberta could now make the transition to managing COVID-19 as an endemic disease. However, current measures will now remain in place. Increases in ICU numbers above what was expected, and the US experience with COVID-19 in children, were given as reasons for pausing the move to the next phase until September 27. Meanwhile, vaccination continues in Alberta, [with nearly 10,000 doses being administered per day](https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm#vaccinations).

The BC COVID-19 Modelling team issued their [eighth report](/post/2021-08-18-report/slides.pdf) on the status of COVID-19 in British Columbia (August 18, 2021). For the past 5 weeks, infections throughout BC have been growing exponentially. This report shows that the growth in cases has been steady and it is urgent to reduce transmission and expand vaccination coverage to avoid overwhelming BC’s medical system. In the video accompanying this report, [Dr. Eric Cytrynbaum](/authors/cyrtyn/) gives a brief presentation highlighting the main points contained in the report.