COVID-19: Two-thirds of British Columbians hoping to get vaccinated, but many won't yet, or at all - Vancouver Sun

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Maria Werring Morrow of Agassiz said she supports vaccination, but said there isn’t enough information about the COVID vaccine yet.

“I’m not going to run out and get one right away because it’s kind of scary,” said Werring Morrow, who added that she is careful to wash her hands, social distance, wear a mask on the rare occasion she goes out, and maintains a “very small bubble.”

Lewin and Werring Morrow were among a number of people who responded to Postmedia social media posts asking about their willingness to volunteer to be vaccinated.

Nisha Yunus, a residential care aide at Providence Health Care is injected with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Christina Cordova, a regional immunization clinical resource nurse in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada December 15, 2020.   Photo by JENNIFER GAUTHIER /X07099

On Tuesday, Nisha Yunus, a 64-year-old residential care aide at Providence Health Care, became the first person in B.C. to be injected with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

“I am so grateful. It feels like a dream came true. It is both a privilege and an honour to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine in British Columbia,” Yunus said a statement released by the Ministry of Health. “I have seen first-hand what COVID-19 does to families, and I am hopeful we are getting closer to finally reaching the end of this pandemic, so people can reunite safely with their loved ones and put this behind us.”

B.C. received its first shipment of the vaccine on Sunday, and Yunus was the first of 4,000 workers in long-term care facilities to get the jab.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the vaccine will be available at two clinics in the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser health regions before immunization is expanded to 30 sites.

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