Border battles: Vaccines ‘being thrown out’ in U.S. should go to Canadians, mayors say

Perfectly good U.S.-owned COVID-19 vaccine doses are regularly going into garbage bins just kilometers away from the Canadian border, according to local mayors and health care providers who are now fighting to get the jabs to go into Canadian arms instead.

border, said pharmacists who live in Windsor but work in the United States have been continually offering him their excess doses at the end of the day.

To date, Canada has vaccinated roughly 70 per cent of its adult population with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

population has both doses of their COVID-19 vaccines.

offers COVID-19 vaccine to some B.C.

He said instead, however, the Americans are “throwing vaccines out every day because they expire.”.

Both Dilkens and Musyj have suggested a number of proposals to get those extra doses into Canadian arms.

“With respect to the set up of the proposed clinic, please be aware that vaccine cannot be imported into Canadian space without the express consent of Health Canada.

nurse or pharmacist reaches across the border to administer it to a person in Canada, that is considered importation of product and requires an expression of no objection from Health Canada.”.

PHAC added that by reaching their arm across the border and injecting the vaccine in Canada, the health-care worker would be seen as importing the drug for sale in Canada.

As such, the Canada Border Services Agency will need to determine on whose behalf the goods are being imported to determine reporting requirements.”.

The federal government, however, insists that there are more than enough vaccines coming to Canada already

“We have a steady supply of vaccines coming into Canada, including 55 million doses coming in by the end of June

There are enough vaccines for every Canadian who wants to get vaccinated,” said Aisling MacKnight, a spokesperson for Health Minister Patty Hajdu, in an emailed statement

Meanwhile, as Musyj waits for the various levels of government to decide how — and whether — they want to address the issue, he said he continues to see unvaccinated patients landing in his ICU

He said there still aren’t enough vaccines to keep up with demand