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Publishing date: Feb 20, 2021 • February 20, 2021 • 3 minute read • Helen Lambing, left, a resident at the Shoreview at Riverside seniors residence in Windsor, ON. and Fallon Chadwick, sales and transitional co-ordinator the facility, are shown on Friday, March 20, 2020. Lambing became a social media star after a video that Chadwick recorded was posted of Lambing s family members wishing her a happy 85th birthday from outside the building. Photo by Dan Janisse /jpg
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Last month, while the world was distracted by political turmoil and the pandemic’s roaring second wave, a very significant proclamation came and went with little fanfare.
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A delay in shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine has thrown a stick into the spokes of the local health unit’s plans to complete its vaccinations of long-term-care and high-risk retirement homes this week.
The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit reported Monday that its promised delivery of the Moderna vaccine for this week has been delayed, grounding its mobile vaccination units for at least a week.
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Susan Healey, who speaks for the health unit, said Monday the health unit had yet to receive word on when the shipments might resume.
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Publishing date: Jan 27, 2021 • January 27, 2021 • 1 minute read
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Kingston Health Sciences Centre is receiving $467,000 from the provincial government to add two mental health beds.
The beds are a part of the $12-million investment the government is making in its mental health and addictions “Road to Wellbeing” plan.
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In addition to new beds, programs that support the mental health and well-being of seniors are to be expanded as part of the plan.
In a special Q&A segment, we put listener questions about the COVID-19 vaccines and their rollout to Dr. Lisa Barrett, a clinician scientist with expertise in infectious disease and immunology at Dalhousie University, and Dr. Gerald Evans, an infectious disease specialist at Queen's University and Kingston Health Sciences Centre.