Clinically extremely vulnerable people prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine

Mar 23, 2021 | 4:13 PM

VICTORIA —British Columbia’s provincial government has announced that people at higher risk of COVID-19 due to existing medical conditions will be able to register for their COVID-19 vaccine starting Monday March 29.

This includes people with various forms of cancer, transplant recipients and those with severe respiratory conditions. It means about 200,000 people in B.C. aged 16 years and older who are clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) are eligible to receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks. The provincial government says some of the CEV population has already been immunized as part of B.C.’s age-based vaccine program.

The province says expert physicians and providers in cancer care, kidney diseases and other conditions causing compromised immunity worked with public health and international COVID-19 data to define B.C.’s updated CEV list to ensure those most at risk of severe illness from COVID-19 are prioritized first.

Those people identified as CEV will receive a letter in the mail in the coming days with information on how to book an appointment, beginning March 29, 2021.

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People who receive this invitation letter must bring it with them to their vaccination appointment. If people who believe they are in the CEV group have not received a letter by April 15, 2021, they can contact the provincial call centre or visit the get vaccinated provincial online registration and booking system, which is scheduled to launch on April 6, to confirm if they are on the CEV list. If they are not on the CEV list, they can reach out to their physician or nurse practitioner about their eligibility.

Six hundred and eighty-two new cases of the virus today in B.C., 23 in the Northern Health region.

There are 315 active cases of the virus up North, with 41 people hospitalized, 12 of whom are in critical care.

There have been 144 new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in our province, for a total of 1,510 cases. Of the total cases, 171 are active and the remaining people have recovered.

To date, 557,508 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 87,168 of which are second doses.

There has been one new COVID-19 related death, for a total of 1,438 deaths in British Columbia.

by CKPG Today

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Clinically extremely vulnerable people prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine

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