{"id":9323,"date":"2025-10-22T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9323"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:07:20","slug":"alberta-doctors-say-provinces-attempt-to-save-on-covid-shots-could-cost-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-doctors-say-provinces-attempt-to-save-on-covid-shots-could-cost-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta doctors say province&#8217;s attempt to save on COVID shots could cost more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013 Alberta doctors say the province\u2019s effort to save money on COVID-19 vaccines could end up costing taxpayers far more in public health-care costs.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brian Wirzba, head of the Alberta Medical Association, which represents doctors in the province, says there\u2019s still time for the government to improve public communication about vaccines and make them more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my clinic talking to patients, they\u2019re still confused about how they could even get it,\u201d said Wirzba, who practises internal medicine in Edmonton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013 Alberta doctors say the province\u2019s effort to save money on COVID-19 vaccines could end up costing taxpayers far more in public health-care costs.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brian Wirzba, head of the Alberta Medical Association, which represents doctors in the province, says there\u2019s still time for the government to improve public communication about vaccines and make them more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my clinic talking to patients, they\u2019re still confused about how they could even get it,\u201d said Wirzba, who practises internal medicine in Edmonton.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-doctors-say-provinces-attempt-to-save-on-covid-shots-could-cost-more\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alberta doctors say province&#8217;s attempt to save on COVID shots could cost more<\/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":[315,1384,96,18,309,14,15],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-medical-association","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323","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=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9325,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}