Nurses, doctors aren’t only front-line workers in need of the first wave of vaccine doses

Although 'doctors and nurses' is a common shorthand in the media to refer to health care workers, front-line health care workers are made up of a much more diverse set of professionals.

When it is determined that health care providers are due to receive vaccinations—as is happening right now across the country—we need an equitable and fair decision-making process to decide which of them are vaccinated first.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY IRVING GOLD

January 13, 2021

Canadians breathed a huge sigh of relief when the federal government approved the first COVID-19 vaccine and saw the first immunizations take place. The end of the pandemic, and the prospect of a return to normal, whatever that means, became a real possibility.

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