Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that the government will buy three million more vaccine shots from Pfizer than originally planned — an effort to secure more of the product that has become the backbone of Canada’s immunization campaign.

Trudeau said Canada’s current order of 48 million Pfizer doses will be fully delivered by August. Officials initially expected Canada’s full allotment to arrive sometime between July and September.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization recently revised its guidelines to permit some recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine to opt for

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