The co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force says she's now "very much in favour" of delaying the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines for shots that must be administered under a two-dose regimen. "I didn't feel that we had the data," Hankins told host Chris Hall. 15:50One dose still confers benefits — and reduces transmissionHankins said it was the population health data that convinced her to change course. A registered nurse delivers a COVID-19 vaccine to a front-line worker at Vancouver General Hospital on March 4. British Columbia was the first province to put in place a four-month gap between vaccine doses.

Source: CBC News March 06, 2021 22:52 UTC