The Northwest Territories appeal to residents, especially at the start of flu season: get vaccinated.
The territory’s social and health authority has stated that it offers vaccination clinics in NWT communities. In addition to the seasonal flu vaccine, other people may get their COVID-19 boosters, and some may get the monkeypox vaccine.
One of the signs of upcoming flu seasons for northern hemisphere countries points south, Australia’s recent flu season, said public fitness director Kami Kandola. This year, he said, the country reported one of its worst flu seasons in five years.
“What’s different this year is that their infection rate, the hospitalization rate [were] in the pediatric population,” Kandola said of the flu.
“The highest infection rate in young people aged five to nine, and 55% of their hospitalizations were in young people aged 16 and younger. And that’s because they were largely unvaccinated. “
When it comes to COVID-19 infections, Kandola said the data shows the vast majority of NWTs. Summer hospitalizations were for others 50 years of age or older, so the territory limited the spring booster dose to those at serious risk of complications.
Kandola has said that in the past 30 days, the NWT had only three COVID-19-like hospitalizations, and those involved others over 60 or older.
Kandola said the territory would be on the lookout for a “variant that escapes natural vaccine-induced immunity,” but there has been no sign of that.
There is still wastewater tracking in Yellowknife, Fort Smith, Fort Simpson, Norman Wells and Behchoko, which monitor COVID and influenza.
She said COVID circulates at a “stable level” during the summer, but there isn’t necessarily a backlog of cases.
There will be a vaccination clinic in Yellowknife on Friday from noon to 3 p. m.
For appointments or information about clinics in the country, other people can touch their local gyms. Yellowknife citizens are encouraged to book online, and walk-in tours are accepted “to the extent capacity allows. “
COVID-19 booster doses are recently available nationwide, and starting Friday, other people over 50 and seniors ages 12 to 49 with high-risk medical conditions can get a bivalent Omicron vaccine.
People five years and older, citizens of long-term care facilities, and those immunocompromised between the ages of five and 64 are eligible from Oct. 1.
People can get a flu (or flu) vaccine along with a COVID-19 booster shot. Residents can check the availability of vaccination clinics in their network on the territory’s website.
The territory reported that all network dates have been finalized and more clinics will be added as they are planned.
Meanwhile, the Imvamuse monkeypox vaccine, which has been approved by Health Canada for adults 18 and older, is available to those who meet the eligibility criteria set by the NWT government here.
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