December 4, 2020 – The Globe and Mail

Long-term care industry waiting for advice on COVID-19 vaccine rollout

By: Kelly Grant and Karen Howlett

“Time saves lives,” said Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the NIA . If Health Canada authorizes the first COVID-19 vaccine this month, as the regulator has signalled it will, and doses languish in freezers for even a short time, “there’ll be more cases of COVID and more deaths,” Dr. Sinha said. “And that will just be an absolute shame.”