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Mayor Drew Dilkens will take his fight to bring surplus vaccines to Windsor from Michigan to the House of Commons Monday when he is scheduled to appear before the Standing Committee on Health. Dilkens, who has pursued a number of ways to gain access to vaccines that would otherwise go to waste, will testify about the urgency to fully vaccinate the local population. A statement released by the mayor’s office Sunday said Dilkens will “advocate for.
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In Canada, there isn’t enough supply of COVID-19 vaccines, says Drew Dilkens, the mayor of Windsor.
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens pitched repurposing the tunnel as a vaccine site to address the lack of availability Canadians have to the shots by accessing vaccines that are going unused stateside. He estimates about 1,200 Windsor residents cross into Detroit every day as essential workers mainly working in health care.
“They were there when Michigan was a hot spot early on in the pandemic. They were there when Michigan had a flare-up as the worst COVID state in the nation just a few months ago,” said Dilkens. “They’re the ones contacting us saying, ‘Listen, we’re seeing things here that just makes us concerned with respect to supply and demand mismatch of vaccines and the fact that some are hitting the trash. They’re expiring.’”
The Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Corporation has unanimously approved the closure of the Windsor side of the international tunnel, for the purpose of administering expiring U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations to Canadians.