{"id":7840,"date":"2025-01-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2025-01-15T21:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:42:24","slug":"alberta-government-weighs-future-of-covid-19-vaccination-as-federal-program-winds-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-government-weighs-future-of-covid-19-vaccination-as-federal-program-winds-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta government weighs future of COVID-19 vaccination as federal program winds down"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>No answer on whether COVID shots will continue to be free in Alberta once change takes effect<\/h2>\n<p>The future of Alberta\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination program is unclear with federal funding set to end this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa has been paying for the shots and distributing them across the country since they became available.<\/p>\n<p>But the Public Health Agency of Canada quietly announced, last week, the provinces and territories will take over purchasing their own supply of COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>No answer on whether COVID shots will continue to be free in Alberta once change takes effect<\/h3>\n<p>The future of Alberta\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination program is unclear with federal funding set to end this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa has been paying for the shots and distributing them across the country since they became available.<\/p>\n<p>But the Public Health Agency of Canada quietly announced, last week, the provinces and territories will take over purchasing their own supply of COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-government-weighs-future-of-covid-19-vaccination-as-federal-program-winds-down\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alberta government weighs future of COVID-19 vaccination as federal program winds down<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,1210,96,18,21,258,14,15],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-government","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}