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Feds gets new COVID vaccines as $1.5-B worth of shots expire, are trashed
Note says a total 52.9 million doses had been thrown away as of last Nov. 24.
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Published Apr 09, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read
Ottawa continues to receive new COVID-19 vaccines, as an estimated $1.5 billion worth of expired shots are being thrown away.
Ottawa continues to receive new COVID-19 vaccines as an estimated $1.5 billion worth of expired shots are being thrown away, a Health Ministry briefing note says.
“As additional vaccines were authorized for use in Canada, manufacturers increased production capacity and demand from Canadians decreased,” said the Dec. 6 note for Health Minister Mark Holland, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
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“Overall wastage increased. Additionally, as new formulations have been authorized for use to address variants of concern, wastage of older formulations has increased.”
The note says a total 52.9 million doses had been thrown away as of last Nov. 24.
The Auditor General in a 2022 report estimated shots cost taxpayers about $30 per dose, representing a loss to date of $1.59 billion.
The trashed doses did not include vaccines given to international charities, according to Blacklock’s.
“Globally, the Government of Canada has donated the equivalent of over 201 million doses,” said the note, which confirmed Public Health continues to receive COVID shots under contracts it previously signed.
“The Public Health Agency does not intend to procure additional COVID-19 vaccines once firm contractual deliveries under existing Advance Purchase Agreements are completed at the end of the calendar year 2024,” said the note.
It did not detail how many more vaccines the federal government was obligated to buy.
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Note says a total 52.9 million doses had been thrown away as of last Nov. 24.
Author of the article
ostmedia NewsPublished Apr 09, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read
Ottawa continues to receive new COVID-19 vaccines, as an estimated $1.5 billion worth of expired shots are being thrown away.
Ottawa continues to receive new COVID-19 vaccines as an estimated $1.5 billion worth of expired shots are being thrown away, a Health Ministry briefing note says.
“As additional vaccines were authorized for use in Canada, manufacturers increased production capacity and demand from Canadians decreased,” said the Dec. 6 note for Health Minister Mark Holland, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Article content
“Overall wastage increased. Additionally, as new formulations have been authorized for use to address variants of concern, wastage of older formulations has increased.”
The note says a total 52.9 million doses had been thrown away as of last Nov. 24.
The Auditor General in a 2022 report estimated shots cost taxpayers about $30 per dose, representing a loss to date of $1.59 billion.
The trashed doses did not include vaccines given to international charities, according to Blacklock’s.
“Globally, the Government of Canada has donated the equivalent of over 201 million doses,” said the note, which confirmed Public Health continues to receive COVID shots under contracts it previously signed.
“The Public Health Agency does not intend to procure additional COVID-19 vaccines once firm contractual deliveries under existing Advance Purchase Agreements are completed at the end of the calendar year 2024,” said the note.
It did not detail how many more vaccines the federal government was obligated to buy.
Feds gets new COVID vaccines as $1.5-B worth of shots expire, are trashed
Ottawa continues to receive new COVID-19 vaccines, as an estimated $1.5 billion worth of expired shots are being thrown away.
It’s only money , we can print more . Please sent donations to the liberal party of Canada and the Justine Trudeau Foundation .Feds gets new COVID vaccines as $1.5-B worth of shots expire, are trashed
Note says a total 52.9 million doses had been thrown away as of last Nov. 24.
Author of the article
Published Apr 09, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read
Ottawa continues to receive new COVID-19 vaccines, as an estimated $1.5 billion worth of expired shots are being thrown away.
Ottawa continues to receive new COVID-19 vaccines as an estimated $1.5 billion worth of expired shots are being thrown away, a Health Ministry briefing note says.
“As additional vaccines were authorized for use in Canada, manufacturers increased production capacity and demand from Canadians decreased,” said the Dec. 6 note for Health Minister Mark Holland, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Article content
“Overall wastage increased. Additionally, as new formulations have been authorized for use to address variants of concern, wastage of older formulations has increased.”
The note says a total 52.9 million doses had been thrown away as of last Nov. 24.
The Auditor General in a 2022 report estimated shots cost taxpayers about $30 per dose, representing a loss to date of $1.59 billion.
The trashed doses did not include vaccines given to international charities, according to Blacklock’s.
“Globally, the Government of Canada has donated the equivalent of over 201 million doses,” said the note, which confirmed Public Health continues to receive COVID shots under contracts it previously signed.
“The Public Health Agency does not intend to procure additional COVID-19 vaccines once firm contractual deliveries under existing Advance Purchase Agreements are completed at the end of the calendar year 2024,” said the note.
It did not detail how many more vaccines the federal government was obligated to buy.
Feds gets new COVID vaccines as $1.5-B worth of shots expire, are trashed
Ottawa continues to receive new COVID-19 vaccines, as an estimated $1.5 billion worth of expired shots are being thrown away.
Pair allegedly defrauded Ontario government’s pandemic relief program
The two Woodbridge residents are accused of exploiting the COVID-19 Energy Cost Rebate program
Author of the article:Chris Doucette
Published Apr 17, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read
Two Woodbridge residents are accused of scamming a COVID-19 relief program offered by the Ontario government during the pandemic.
Ontario Provincial Police say the arrest of the pair stems from an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for Ontario (SFO) into individuals who allegedly received small business relief funds through fraudulent means.
“In fall 2020, the Ontario Government announced and began rolling out small business relief programs to assist small businesses with operating costs and loss of revenue due to mandatory COVID-19 pandemic closures,” the OPP said in a statement released Wednesday.
After reviewing the applications of two individuals from the Greater Toronto Area, the Ministry of Finance deemed them suspicious and referred them to the SFO for investigation,” the OPP said. “It is alleged relief funding from the government was applied for through fictitious or ineligible businesses.”
Five other people – four in Ajax and one in Ottawa – were similarly accused of defrauding the provincial government in July 2022 by exploiting the Ontario Small Business Support Grant, The Property Tax Program and The Energy Cost Rebate Program.
The latest two Ontarians arrested allegedly exploited the COVID-19 Energy Cost Rebate program.
Theophilus Ogunkunle, 51, and Omolola Ogunkunle, 36, both of Woodbridge, are each charged with fraud over $5,000, uttering a forged document and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.
The accused were released from custody and are scheduled to appear in a Newmarket court on May 10.
cdoucette@postmedia.com
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torontosun.com
The two Woodbridge residents are accused of exploiting the COVID-19 Energy Cost Rebate program
Author of the article:Chris Doucette
Published Apr 17, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read
Two Woodbridge residents are accused of scamming a COVID-19 relief program offered by the Ontario government during the pandemic.
Ontario Provincial Police say the arrest of the pair stems from an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for Ontario (SFO) into individuals who allegedly received small business relief funds through fraudulent means.
“In fall 2020, the Ontario Government announced and began rolling out small business relief programs to assist small businesses with operating costs and loss of revenue due to mandatory COVID-19 pandemic closures,” the OPP said in a statement released Wednesday.
After reviewing the applications of two individuals from the Greater Toronto Area, the Ministry of Finance deemed them suspicious and referred them to the SFO for investigation,” the OPP said. “It is alleged relief funding from the government was applied for through fictitious or ineligible businesses.”
Five other people – four in Ajax and one in Ottawa – were similarly accused of defrauding the provincial government in July 2022 by exploiting the Ontario Small Business Support Grant, The Property Tax Program and The Energy Cost Rebate Program.
The latest two Ontarians arrested allegedly exploited the COVID-19 Energy Cost Rebate program.
Theophilus Ogunkunle, 51, and Omolola Ogunkunle, 36, both of Woodbridge, are each charged with fraud over $5,000, uttering a forged document and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.
The accused were released from custody and are scheduled to appear in a Newmarket court on May 10.
cdoucette@postmedia.com
@sundoucette
Pair allegedly defrauded Ontario government’s pandemic relief program
Two Woodbridge residents are accused of scamming a COVID-19 relief program offered by the Ontario government during the pandemic.
Feds inject another $36M into vaccine injury compensation fund
As of December, $11.2 million in compensation has been paid
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Laura Osman
Published Apr 24, 2024 • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — The federal government has added $36.4 million to a program designed to support people who have been seriously injured or killed by vaccines since the end of 2020.
The program was announced shortly after COVID-19 shots first became available to the public, and provides financial compensation to people who were adversely affected by Health Canada-approved vaccines.
The Liberals earmarked $75 million for the first five years of the program. To date, a private firm called OXARO has received $56.2 million from Ottawa to run the program and pay out valid claims that originate outside of Quebec.
As of December, the firm has paid $11.2 million in compensation.
Quebec has had its own vaccine injury compensation program since 1985, and received $7.75 million when the federal program launched.
The Liberal government set aside another $36 million for OXARO and Quebec to cover the next two years of the program as part of the federal budget tabled in the House of Commons last week.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says it contracted the work to OXARO to ensure the impartiality of the claims process.
“OXARO operates independently and at arm’s length from PHAC,” a spokesperson for the department said in a statement.
“This means that PHAC has no involvement in program delivery, including assessment of claims or appeals of claims.”
The cost of the program is dependent on how many people apply for compensation, the spokesperson said.
As of December, OXARO has received 2,233 claims and approved 138 of them.
The available statistics do not specify which vaccines were involved.
The program was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, but covers injuries and deaths associated with vaccines approved for any illness, as long as they were administered after Dec. 8, 2020.
At the time, the department underscored that a serious adverse reaction to a vaccine is extremely rare — affecting less than one in a million people — but that the government has a duty to help if a reaction does happen.
A little less than a year later, Ottawa made it mandatory to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel by plane or train, or to work for the federal public service.
To be eligible for compensation, the patient or their beneficiary must be able to prove they suffered a severe, life-threatening or life-altering injury that resulted in a persistent or significant disability, incapacity, a birth defect or death.
More than 105 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered since Dec. 14, 2020, and 0.01 per cent led to serious adverse effects, Health Canada data show.
Of the 488 deaths reported after people were vaccinated for COVID-19, four were directly linked to the shot, the most recent Health Canada report indicates.
Quebec saw an uptick in claims to its vaccine injury compensation program during the pandemic, from one claim in 2020 to 98 in both 2021 and 2022.
Only three of those cases had been approved for compensation as of March 2023.
torontosun.com
As of December, $11.2 million in compensation has been paid
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Laura Osman
Published Apr 24, 2024 • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — The federal government has added $36.4 million to a program designed to support people who have been seriously injured or killed by vaccines since the end of 2020.
The program was announced shortly after COVID-19 shots first became available to the public, and provides financial compensation to people who were adversely affected by Health Canada-approved vaccines.
The Liberals earmarked $75 million for the first five years of the program. To date, a private firm called OXARO has received $56.2 million from Ottawa to run the program and pay out valid claims that originate outside of Quebec.
As of December, the firm has paid $11.2 million in compensation.
Quebec has had its own vaccine injury compensation program since 1985, and received $7.75 million when the federal program launched.
The Liberal government set aside another $36 million for OXARO and Quebec to cover the next two years of the program as part of the federal budget tabled in the House of Commons last week.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says it contracted the work to OXARO to ensure the impartiality of the claims process.
“OXARO operates independently and at arm’s length from PHAC,” a spokesperson for the department said in a statement.
“This means that PHAC has no involvement in program delivery, including assessment of claims or appeals of claims.”
The cost of the program is dependent on how many people apply for compensation, the spokesperson said.
As of December, OXARO has received 2,233 claims and approved 138 of them.
The available statistics do not specify which vaccines were involved.
The program was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, but covers injuries and deaths associated with vaccines approved for any illness, as long as they were administered after Dec. 8, 2020.
At the time, the department underscored that a serious adverse reaction to a vaccine is extremely rare — affecting less than one in a million people — but that the government has a duty to help if a reaction does happen.
A little less than a year later, Ottawa made it mandatory to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel by plane or train, or to work for the federal public service.
To be eligible for compensation, the patient or their beneficiary must be able to prove they suffered a severe, life-threatening or life-altering injury that resulted in a persistent or significant disability, incapacity, a birth defect or death.
More than 105 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered since Dec. 14, 2020, and 0.01 per cent led to serious adverse effects, Health Canada data show.
Of the 488 deaths reported after people were vaccinated for COVID-19, four were directly linked to the shot, the most recent Health Canada report indicates.
Quebec saw an uptick in claims to its vaccine injury compensation program during the pandemic, from one claim in 2020 to 98 in both 2021 and 2022.
Only three of those cases had been approved for compensation as of March 2023.
Feds inject another $36M into vaccine injury compensation fund
The program was announced shortly after COVID-19 shots first became available to the public
Safe and effective.Feds inject another $36M into vaccine injury compensation fund
As of December, $11.2 million in compensation has been paid
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Laura Osman
Published Apr 24, 2024 • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — The federal government has added $36.4 million to a program designed to support people who have been seriously injured or killed by vaccines since the end of 2020.
The program was announced shortly after COVID-19 shots first became available to the public, and provides financial compensation to people who were adversely affected by Health Canada-approved vaccines.
The Liberals earmarked $75 million for the first five years of the program. To date, a private firm called OXARO has received $56.2 million from Ottawa to run the program and pay out valid claims that originate outside of Quebec.
As of December, the firm has paid $11.2 million in compensation.
Quebec has had its own vaccine injury compensation program since 1985, and received $7.75 million when the federal program launched.
The Liberal government set aside another $36 million for OXARO and Quebec to cover the next two years of the program as part of the federal budget tabled in the House of Commons last week.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says it contracted the work to OXARO to ensure the impartiality of the claims process.
“OXARO operates independently and at arm’s length from PHAC,” a spokesperson for the department said in a statement.
“This means that PHAC has no involvement in program delivery, including assessment of claims or appeals of claims.”
The cost of the program is dependent on how many people apply for compensation, the spokesperson said.
As of December, OXARO has received 2,233 claims and approved 138 of them.
The available statistics do not specify which vaccines were involved.
The program was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, but covers injuries and deaths associated with vaccines approved for any illness, as long as they were administered after Dec. 8, 2020.
At the time, the department underscored that a serious adverse reaction to a vaccine is extremely rare — affecting less than one in a million people — but that the government has a duty to help if a reaction does happen.
A little less than a year later, Ottawa made it mandatory to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel by plane or train, or to work for the federal public service.
To be eligible for compensation, the patient or their beneficiary must be able to prove they suffered a severe, life-threatening or life-altering injury that resulted in a persistent or significant disability, incapacity, a birth defect or death.
More than 105 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered since Dec. 14, 2020, and 0.01 per cent led to serious adverse effects, Health Canada data show.
Of the 488 deaths reported after people were vaccinated for COVID-19, four were directly linked to the shot, the most recent Health Canada report indicates.
Quebec saw an uptick in claims to its vaccine injury compensation program during the pandemic, from one claim in 2020 to 98 in both 2021 and 2022.
Only three of those cases had been approved for compensation as of March 2023.
Feds inject another $36M into vaccine injury compensation fund
The program was announced shortly after COVID-19 shots first became available to the public