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Premier Doug Ford on Thursday extended the stay-at-home order until June 2.
It’s the second time that the government has extended the emergency measure, which was scheduled to expire May 20. It means that the order, which began April 8, will continue for a total of almost eight weeks.
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It signals that Ford, 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, after three waves of infections, more than half a million cases, over 8,400 deaths and the near collapse of health care, has finally learned some hard lessons.
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Then what?
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I’m one of the 37,071 people in Windsor and Essex County who got the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
I got the first shot April 19, when the risk of a potentially fatal blood clot was believed to be one in 250,000.
Now, it’s believed to be one in 60,000, so Ontario announced Tuesday it’s suspending first doses of AstraZeneca.
A clot is most likely to happen between four and 28 days after the shot. I just have to make it to Monday.
Author of the article: Anne Jarvis
Publishing date: May 11, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • Participants in the Ontario Health Coalition s Day of Action on Long-Term Care rallied outside Heron Terrace in Tecumseh on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. The demonstration was held in part to call for action by the Ford government to recruit and train more staff and improve pay and working conditions for staff. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
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Almost 4,000 residents in long-term care homes in Ontario have died from COVID-19.
In a rich province with advanced health care, the rates of infection and death are among the worst in the world.
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We’re being offered thousands of surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses in Detroit.
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But we can’t get to them.
Vials are expiring and being thrown out.
But we can’t get to them.
Pharmacists from Windsor who work in Detroit are begging us to go there and let them vaccinate us.
But Canada and the United States can’t navigate all the rules the ban on non-essential cross-border travel, the two-week quarantine here to make it happen.
But we can’t get to them.
Vials are expiring and being thrown out.
But we can’t get to them.
Pharmacists from Windsor who work in Detroit are begging us to go there and let them vaccinate us.
But Canada and the United States can’t navigate all the rules the ban on non-essential cross-border travel, the two-week quarantine here to make it happen.
“I can get 1,500 doses if you can find a way to get people here or we can work something else out,” a pharmacist at Costco in Livonia told Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens.
“We are ready and able to handle 7,000 doses a day. On a good day, we do 2,500,” said another at the vaccination clinic at Ford Field.