Canada's allocation of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses may be able to inoculate 20 per cent more people than the manufacturers indicated, according to the man in charge of vaccine logistics for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin told CBC News Network's Power & Politics today that PHAC was told initially that each vaccine vial shipped would contain only five doses, but Pfizer-BioNTech has since revised that estimate. "The way it works is there is actually overage in every vial," Fortin told host David Cochrane. Watch: Extra doses can be extracted from each Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, says Fortin:Extra doses can be extracted from each Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine vial, says Major-General Danny Fortin Power and Politics Video 1:57 The Public Health Agency of Canada and Pfizer-BioNTech have given direction to the provinces that they can extract six doses from each vial of the COVID-19 vaccine - one more than previously thought, according to Major-General Danny Fortin. A Statistics Canada report released Thursday found three-quarters of Canadians would get a COVID-19 vaccine when one is available.

Source: CBC News December 17, 2020 22:45 UTC