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on January 16, 2021
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Seven residents at Montreal care home get COVID despite receiving first vaccine dose
MONTREAL - Quebec health authorities are examining how seven residents of a Montreal long-term care centre contracted COVID-19 despite being among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the province.
Management at the Maimonides Geriatric Centre informed residents of the cases in a notice Tuesday, noting that residents were infected within 28 days of receiving the first of two vaccine doses.
Dr. Mylene Drouin, Montreal’s director of public health, said Wednesday that authorities were looking at the cases identified at Maimonides as well as at St-Antoine long-term care home in Quebec City — the other location to receive the first vaccines in the province.
“It is a small number to draw a conclusion,” Drouin said of Maimonides, but she added health experts were looking at possible reasons and whether any recommendations need to be changed as a result.
Quebec has decided to delay administering second doses to patients and has instead chosen to give a first dose to as many people as possible. Last week, a dozen Maimonides residents sued the province to obtain a second dose within 21 days of their first dose — the time frame set by the vaccine manufacturer.
Lawyer Vanessa Paliotti said residents had consented to be vaccinated subject to receiving two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the 21-day time frame. “They would not have agreed to receive a single dose,” Paliotti said in an interview.
She said residents feared contracting the coronavirus if the wait for the second dose was extended for an indefinite period.
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