Experts attribute the decline to poor communication by the province's health authorities on how Albertans can get their vaccines

Alberta’s vaccine uptake for Covid and influenza vaccines are at their lowest, compared to the same time period in past three and five years, according to the province’s immunization dashboard.

Experts attribute the decline to poor communication by the province’s health authorities on how Albertans can get their vaccines as well as charging a $100 fee to non-medically-vulnerable Albertans for their Covid vaccine.

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“It’s not a campaign,” Dr. James Dickinson, a Calgary family physician who runs the Alberta Influenza Surveillance network. “There’s no big publicity or anything like that to get people to participate and it’s set up in a way that

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