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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) said Windsor-Essex residents meeting the highest risk and high risk health conditions criteria and certain essential caregivers can now schedule their COVID-19 vaccine appointment
Windsor-Essex to launch COVID-19 vaccinations for farm workers
COVID-19 vaccination eligibility is expanding once again in Windsor-Essex, with public health looking to shots in the arms of migrant workers on farms, as well those of some people who can t get to a clinic.
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Posted: Apr 16, 2021 1:28 PM ET | Last Updated: April 16
The COVID-19 vaccine clinic opened up at the Nature Fresh Farms Recreation Centre in Leamington in March.(Dan Taekema/CBC)
WINDSOR, ONT. The Windsor Essex County Health Unit plans to start vaccinating farm workers next week, with plans to get COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of about 400 people a day. The health unit says they will begin vaccinating temporary foreign workers as well as locals working on Essex County farms next week. “Area farms were hard hit by the pandemic last year and continue to experience challenges due to their congregate living setting and work setting,” WECHU CEO Theresa Marentette says. In 2020, there were around 50 outbreaks on local agri-farms and about 2,700 cases among workers. Marentette says Erie Shores Healthcare and he WECHU’s public health inspectors have been working with local farms to create vaccine awareness and to get appointments booked at the COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Nature Fresh Farms Recreation Centre in Leamington.
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“We are doing the best we can.”
Local health unit CEO Theresa Marentette shared a rare on-camera laugh with Medical Officer of Health Dr. Wajid Ahmed Thursday morning when asked how her team has been able to keep up with rapid changes to Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan.
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The provincial government’s announcement on Wednesday that vaccines would soon be available to those age 18 and older in COVID “hot spot” postal codes seven of which are in Windsor, Leamington, and Kingsville was news to the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit. They were still working to open up appointments to those age 50 and older in select postal codes, a change announced by Ontario Premier Doug Ford only one day prior, along with the official start of the vaccine distribution plan’s second phase.