{"id":21884,"date":"2021-06-15T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T03:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=21884"},"modified":"2021-06-15T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T03:48:25","slug":"no-plans-to-hold-vaccinations-in-n-s-schools-top-doc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=21884","title":{"rendered":"No plans to hold vaccinations in N.S. schools, top doc says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> Nova Scotia has no plans to follow in the footsteps that neighbouring New Brunswick is doing by holding COVID-19 vaccination clinics in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a recent COVID-19 briefing, Dr. Robert Strang explained why N.S. does not need to go that route in an answer to a question from The Laker News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the province did look at that option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reality is we\u2019re getting good uptake in school-aged children who are eligible for the vaccine,\u201d said Dr. Strang on June 9. \u201cWe have a well-established mechanism for delivering the vaccine that is working very effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video from the June 9 COVID-19 briefing.<\/strong> <em>Video edited by Dagley Media.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pat Healey from The Laker News on the NS COVID-19 Update (06-09-2021)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BnELn6n0KZM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Strang said the province doesn\u2019t feel they need to change the way they\u2019re doing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQuite frankly shifting some of our resources to schools would take considerable time and effort and would slow down our overall aged-based approach,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not having any indication junior and high school kids are having any problem accessing the vaccine through our current mechanisms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;30&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;] HALIFAX: Nova Scotia has no plans to follow in the footsteps that neighbouring New Brunswick is doing by holding COVID-19 vaccination clinics in schools. At a recent COVID-19 briefing, Dr. Robert Strang explained why N.S. does not need to go that route in an answer to a question from The Laker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[2150,975,983,2,2267],"class_list":["post-21884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-covid19","tag-dr-robert-strang","tag-fall-river","tag-vaccinations-in-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}