Article contentHealth Canada regulators agree with Pfizer and BioNTech that you can regularly get six doses out of each vial of their COVID-19 vaccine. Health Canada’s chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma says Canada is amending the label on the vials in Canada, which previously indicated the vials contained five doses. Try refreshing your browser, or Canada agrees to pay for six — not five — doses per vial of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Back to videoNow it will say there are six. The change means Pfizer will fulfil its contract to ship four million doses to Canada by March by sending fewer vials. Sharma says after an independent review of the data, the regulators decided “six full doses could be obtained reliably” and still leave additional vaccine in a vial.

Source: National Post February 09, 2021 15:56 UTC