No vaccine clinics in Alberta schools

Clinics for COVID-19 vaccines will not be made available in Alberta schools, despite school boards such as the Edmonton Public School board requesting them as cases in schools and pediatric hospitalizations continue to rise in the province. Currently, vaccinations for children aged five to eleven are available at one hundred and twenty Alberta Health Services clinics across the province. School trustees who are calling for in-school clinics say that the current locations for child vaccinations are in some cases “far-flung” and inaccessible by transit, and that parents may not be able to take time off work to take children to appointments. 
Steve Buick, spokesperson for Health Minister Jason Copping, said that most clinics are open evenings and weekends, and that they plan to expand hours. However, that doesn’t solve the issue of location accessibility.
Produced by Hannah Cunningham.