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B.C. Respiratory Illness Season Starts as Province Secures Millions of Vaccine Doses
B.C. is sending vaccine notices to higher-risk residents as influenza cases circulate and officials stock nearly 2 million flu doses and 1.5 million COVID-19 doses.
VICTORIA — British Columbia's respiratory illness season has started, with the province preparing to distribute millions of vaccine doses to combat the rise of both influenza and COVID-19. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the province has secured almost two million doses of this season's flu vaccine and 1.5 million doses of an updated COVID-19 vaccine based on the uptake last season. The province began notifying priority groups, s…