Information obtained by the Western Standard from Alberta Health Services (AHS) shows vastly different rates of employee vaccine uptake than reported by AHS publicly.
The records show a count of 104,991 employees with 69,302 reporting being double vaccinated, for a 66% vaccine uptake rate.
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