June 1, 2021 - Since a May 12, 2021 announcement pausing first doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in pharmacy, no second or first doses of AstraZeneca are being offered in B.C. pharmacy currently.
Mitch Moneo has worked with the Ministry of Health’s Pharmaceutical Services Division since 2004 and was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of the division in 2017. He was one of the speakers at the BCPhA Annual Conference, which was delivered virtually this year in March, where he revealed his…
Learn about how some of our community pharmacies in British Columbia are taking the fight to COVID-19. Across the province, community pharmacists are each doing their part to meet patients’ needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether that means administering COVID-19 vaccines or ensuring…
Jamie Wigston, BC Pharmacy Association Board Director and pharmacist at West End Medicine Centre in New Westminster, has been seeing a much greater demand for vaccines over the past year. Wigston’s pharmacy has so far administered 200 doses of the…
Dr. Abdu Sharkawy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an Infectious Diseases consultant at the University Health Network. Having amassed more than 20 years of experience on the front lines, he routinely appears on multiple media outlets around the globe for his…
