{"id":184513,"date":"2023-10-04T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=184513"},"modified":"2023-10-04T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:56:00","slug":"n-s-chief-medical-officer-discusses-covid-19-and-flu-vaccines-for-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/n-s-chief-medical-officer-discusses-covid-19-and-flu-vaccines-for-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"N.S. Chief Medical Officer discusses COVID-19 and flu vaccines for fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Robert Strang, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nova Scotia\u2019s Chief Medical Officer of Health, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">held a press conference on Tuesday to discuss <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">respiratory illnesses and the province's fall vaccine rollout plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last fall<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> saw a spike in respiratory illness cases as well as an early start of flu season, according to Nova Scotia's <a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/dhw\/cdpc\/respiratory-watch\/respiratory-watch-2022-40-41.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Respiratory Watch Update for October 2 - 15, 2022<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Tuesday's announcement, Dr. Strang said Nova Scotia is offering updated COVID-19 vaccines to Nova Scotians ages six months and older. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re still at relatively low levels,\u201d Dr. Strang said about the recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Nova Scotia. \u201cFar less than we\u2019ve had in previous waves of the pandemic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Health Canada recently approved an updated Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine that targets the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant of the COVID-19 virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masking remains a choice throughout the province but is still required in some healthcare facilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The province also announced that the high-dose flu vaccine will be free for residents 65 and over.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vaccines will be available later this month -- Dr. Strang said it is safe to receive both the flu and COVID-19 vaccines at the same time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTake it seriously, take the appropriate precautions but we don\u2019t need to be alarmed about this,\u201d Dr. Strang said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia\u2019s Chief Medical Officer of Health, held a press conference on Tuesday to discuss respiratory illnesses and the province&#8217;s fall vaccine rollout plan.\u00a0 Last fall saw a spike in respiratory illness cases as well as an early start of flu season, according to Nova Scotia&#8217;s Respiratory Watch Update for October 2&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":184530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,223],"tags":[31041,4240,458,4242,31042],"radio":[13058],"origine":[274,300,278],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184598,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184513\/revisions\/184598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184513"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=184513"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=184513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}