{"id":9933,"date":"2026-09-14T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9933"},"modified":"2026-09-20T00:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:33:23","slug":"alberta-government-maintaining-covid-vaccine-fee-as-it-prepares-for-fall-influenza-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-government-maintaining-covid-vaccine-fee-as-it-prepares-for-fall-influenza-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta government maintaining COVID vaccine fee as it prepares for fall influenza campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta government says its provincewide influenza, COVID and respiratory syncytial virus vaccination campaign will begin next month.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release issued Monday, the province said it&#8217;s maintaining the $100 fee it brought in last year for those seeking the COVID vaccine, though there&#8217;s a long list of reasons that could see the fee be waived for people, such as having health conditions that put them at risk for severe illness.<\/p>\n<p>The government said it&#8217;s making it easier to get the vaccine this year as it&#8217;s waiving the fee for anyone over the age of 65, and once again supplying pharmacies with the COVID vaccine to administer it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta government says its provincewide influenza, COVID and respiratory syncytial virus vaccination campaign will begin next month. In a news release issued Monday, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-government-maintaining-covid-vaccine-fee-as-it-prepares-for-fall-influenza-campaign\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alberta government maintaining COVID vaccine fee as it prepares for fall influenza campaign<\/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":[315,1210,96,18,77,80,49,14,15],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-government","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933","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=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9934,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions\/9934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}