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Politics This Morning: Health Canada agrees to Pfizer’s request for label change to extract six doses

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Dr. Supriya Sharma says Pfizer has been able to demonstrate that, as long as the syringe is used and people administering the doses are using the proper technique, a sixth dose can be consistently extracted.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

February 10, 2021

Good Wednesday morning, Health Canada has approved Pfizer/BioNTech's request to change the label in order to extract six doses of its vaccine from a single vial, rather than five. Save for a few cases here and there, Canada had previously only been able to reliably draw five doses, since a special ...

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