The mayor’s quest to get surplus Detroit vaccine into the arms of Windsorites needing a second dose took a significant step Wednesday when the board managing…
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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.’”
Will Canadians be able to get COVID vaccine inside Windsor-Detroit tunnel? A plan is underway
Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Corporation approves closure of Canadian side
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Vaccine push on Canadian border
DETROIT – There is a plan to hold COVID-19 vaccination clinics in the tunnel connecting Windsor and Detroit so that Canadians can receive unused vaccines.
The Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Corporation unanimously approved the closure of the Canadian side of the tunnel, according to CBC.
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens set up a waitlist for Windsor residents interested in receiving their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine and so far at least 6,000 people have signed up, according to the report.
As of Friday afternoon, the normally bustling mass vaccination sites in Windsor-Essex had more than 400 appointments still open for the days up to and including June 4.
Increasingly exasperated by the apparent unwillingness of federal officials to relax border rules for Windsorites seeking surplus Detroit vaccines, Mayor Drew…