With COVID vaccine shipments expected to ramp up in the next few weeks, questions remain about which version of the drug is best.
Dr. David Colby, Chatham-Kent’s Medical Officer of Health, maintains the best shot is the first one you can get.
“Do the vaccines prevent serious disease, hospitalization, and death, and do they prevent transmission to others,” Dr. Colby asks. “There’s more and more data coming in that they are fabulously successful on both counts.”
The National Advisory Committee on Immunizations recently suggested Pfizer and Moderna were preferred vaccines, and Canadians should weigh the risk of getting a potentially earlier appointment for AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson.
Dr. David Colby says labelling which vaccines are “better” than others really isn’t helpful.
“The ability of any kind of epidemic to be transmitted through society or through a population more correctly, really is depending on being able to find susceptible individuals. Getting everyone vaccinated will make it very difficult for the virus to find susceptible people, and vaccines are our ticket out.”
Dr. Colby maintains the best shot you can get is the first one you’re eligible to receive.
