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Quebec accelerates timeline for teenagers to get fully vaccinated - Montreal Gazette, July 6, 2021
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is among the experts quoted by the Montreal Gazette.
"…Dr. Catherine Hankins, co-chair of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force for Canada and professor of epidemiology at McGill University, noted Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommends everyone age 12 to 18 receive two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the only one approved for children 12 and over in Canada. Studies out of the United States on which NACI based its recommendations found that overall young people were well immunized with both the shorter and longer delays between doses."