{"id":9321,"date":"2025-10-20T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:44:23","slug":"some-albertans-frustrated-health-link-overwhelmed-as-covid-19-shots-roll-out-to-general-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/some-albertans-frustrated-health-link-overwhelmed-as-covid-19-shots-roll-out-to-general-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Albertans frustrated, Health Link overwhelmed as COVID-19 shots roll out to general public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Albertans struggled to book COVID-19 shots as the province\u2019s fall immunization campaign opened to the general public on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>By late afternoon, Health Link had been flooded with more than 10,000 calls related to the COVID vaccine alone and a spokesperson for Primary Care Alberta confirmed the provincial health information phone line was facing extremely high call volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Booking for phase one of the province\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination program, which offered free shots to some high risk groups, began on Sept.&nbsp;29. Those groups include people with underlying medical conditions, those living in care homes, health care workers, seniors receiving the Alberta Seniors Benefit and people  experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Albertans struggled to book COVID-19 shots as the province\u2019s fall immunization campaign opened to the general public on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>By late afternoon, Health Link had been flooded with more than 10,000 calls related to the COVID vaccine alone and a spokesperson for Primary Care Alberta confirmed the provincial health information phone line was facing extremely high call volumes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/some-albertans-frustrated-health-link-overwhelmed-as-covid-19-shots-roll-out-to-general-public\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Albertans frustrated, Health Link overwhelmed as COVID-19 shots roll out to general public<\/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":[315,96,18,14,15],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","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=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9322,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}