KFL&A Public Health is sending a letter to the federal and provincial governments seeking a dramatic increase in influenza vaccine doses for the region to try to fight dual infections in case of a novel coronavirus outbreak next winter. “We’re urging our federal and our provincial governments to purchase additional vaccine this year to get it into the hands of public health and family physicians and pharmacists in September so that we can best protect our community so that we don’t have to worry about two viruses that behave very similarly,” said Dr.
Kieran Moore, medical officer of health for the public health unit. In the region, about 40 per cent of the population is vaccinated yearly for the flu, according to Moore, but he wants as much