COVID-19 vaccine.“My reaction was I thought it was unfair for her because I think she should have priority since she is ill,” the 70-year-old Gosselin said.Bridgman suffers from advanced breast cancer.
She wants the Quebec government to move cancer patients aged 16 to 59 higher on the vaccine priority list. Currently they rank number eight out of 10 categories, after people 60 and over get vaccinated.
Quebec cancer patients frustrated with wait for COVID-19 vaccine “A lot of the treatments cancer patients do increase our age; we age drastically with these treatments,” Bridgman said. “If we do get sick there is a good chance we have to stop treatment to get through COVID.”Gosselin is 70 and in good health.