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Alberta needs to change tactics to improve 5-11 COVID vaccination rate: study
University of Alberta researchers.And with booster doses going out to kids in the same age group on Wednesday, one author of a new study said “public health has a bit of work on their hands.”“Our study showed that although a good proportion of folks got their first dose for their kids, second dose dropped off a little bit,” Dr. Shannon MacDonald, associate professor of nursing and public health at the University of Alberta, told Global News.“So even people who are willing to vaccinate their kids are either forgetting or not getting around to the second dose.