TORONTO Approximately 15,000 people aged 18 and older are expected to be vaccinated at a new pop-up clinic in North Etobicoke over the next three weeks. A large pop-up immunization clinic has been set up at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, located near Finch Avenue and Highway 427 in North Etobicoke, where staff will begin inoculating residents in the community starting this week. The clinic, which will be hosted in partnership with BAPs Charities, William Osler Health System, and Toronto Public Health, is open to all residents 18 and older in the M9R, M9W, M9V, L4T, and L6S postal codes.
TORONTO Toronto Mayor John Tory has joined a growing list of Ontario politicians who have now received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Tory received a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine at a pharmacy on Queen Street West earlier this morning. The mayor’s vaccination comes after Premier Doug Ford received his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Friday. Ford got the shot at his local pharmacy in Etobicoke. The premier, Tory, and Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott all received the AstraZeneca shot in an effort to suppress vaccine hesitancy following concerns about the use of the vaccine.
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Ontario s health system increasingly overwhelmed by pandemic’s third wave
Ontario Conservative Premier Doug Ford announced a totally ineffectual stay-at-home order yesterday in response to growing warnings from doctors that the surging third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the province’s hospitals weeks, and possibly just days, away from collapse.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announcing State of Emergency (Source: CBC News)
Already there are more than 500 COVID patients in hospital intensive care units (ICUs). This is far higher than the number hospitals have warned would severely impact their ability to treat other critically ill patients. On Wednesday, 311 of the province’s 504 COVID-19 ICU patients were on ventilators.