COVID-19 immunization, amid a reduction in shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine they admit will have a significant effect.Pfizer has announced a temporary delay in shipments of the vaccine as it scales up its European production centre. ‘Temporary delay’ chops Canada’s deliveries of Pfizer vaccine in half for four weeks That means that the 50,000-dose shipment British Columbia was expecting in February will be slashed in half.“In some sectors the delivery will be delayed and that is just the reality we face,” Dix told Global News on Friday.“What it will really affect is the February and March period … it obviously impacts the priority groups and second doses as well.” Pfizer vaccine delay a ‘blow,’ will affect Alberta’s vaccine.