{"id":9387,"date":"2025-11-04T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:25:22","slug":"pharmacists-decry-hurdles-facing-albertans-who-want-a-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/pharmacists-decry-hurdles-facing-albertans-who-want-a-covid-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacists decry \u2018hurdles\u2019 facing Albertans who want a COVID vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11330076\/alberta-government-covid-vaccine-plan-political\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Changes to the Alberta government\u2019s COVID vaccination plan<\/a> this year mean many Albertans are facing long waitlists and a hefty bill to get their shot.<\/p>\n<p>With the government-run program only offered through public health clinics and many of those clinics experiencing long waits, some Albertans are choosing instead to go to their local pharmacist to get immunized \u2014 as they have done in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in previous years pharmacies did such a good job handling the COVID shots, and now I\u2019m just hearing the frustration of people that are waiting and booking into December,\u201d said Jason Chan Remillard, a pharmacist at Northmount Pharmasave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11330076\/alberta-government-covid-vaccine-plan-political\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Changes to the Alberta government\u2019s COVID vaccination plan<\/a> this year mean many Albertans are facing long waitlists and a hefty bill to get their shot.<\/p>\n<p>With the government-run program only offered through public health clinics and many of those clinics experiencing long waits, some Albertans are choosing instead to go to their local pharmacist to get immunized \u2014 as they have done in previous years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/pharmacists-decry-hurdles-facing-albertans-who-want-a-covid-vaccine\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pharmacists decry \u2018hurdles\u2019 facing Albertans who want a COVID vaccine<\/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":[315,96,18,14,51,15],"class_list":["post-9387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387","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=9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}