When Bill Rodger and his family moved to Bridgewater, N.S., prior to his daughter’s first birthday, everything seemed in line for her to receive her first routine vaccines, including her mumps and measles shots.
But when the third wave of COVID-19 struck, the shots were put on hold.
“What they told me at that point was that they were pausing vaccines for children that were not assigned to doctors,” he told The Current. “A lot of nurses that I spoke to were very, extremely helpful people, but had their hands tied with COVID.”
“They kind of prioritized [the] COVID response.”
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