Coming Week Will See Trickle of COVID 19 Vaccine Doses Before Ramping Up

Coming Week Will See Trickle of COVID 19 Vaccine Doses Before Ramping Up
A health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to be administered in Fiumicino, near Rome's international airport on Feb. 11, 2021. Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo
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OTTAWA—The Public Health Agency of Canada is expecting a smaller-than-normal shipment of COVID-19 vaccines this week, with fewer than 445,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech shots scheduled for delivery over the next seven days.

Yet that seeming trickle is set to explode into a full-blown flood starting the week of March 22 as the companies dramatically ramp up their deliveries and other pharmaceutical firms start making good on their own promised shipments.