Health Canada recommending AstraZeneca vaccine should not be used on people under 55

Federal immunization experts have changed their recommendations for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization says the vaccine should not be used on people under the age of 55.

The AstraZeneca vaccine was approved last month for everyone over 18.

But at the time, the vaccine committee said there weren’t enough seniors included in clinical trials to be confident about how the vaccine would perform on people over the age of 65.