Pfizer–BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine that will allow six doses of the precious drug to be extracted per vial.Up until now, Canada has been extracting five doses from a single vial of the vaccine.The company recently pushed Health Canada to change the label information, as it did with the U.S.
and Europe. Both countries approved the change in early January. Pfizer pushes Health Canada to stretch vaccine doses per vial as demand mounts In its review, Health Canada determined that “six full doses can be consistently obtained from vials with the use of low dead volume syringes,” a news release states.“Health Canada had previously acknowledged that with the right technique and syringe it is possible to obtain a sixth dose from the vial.”The.