Today s letters: A year at QCH, a plea for guaranteed basic income Friday, March 12: Queensway Carleton Hospital saw its first COVID-19 patient exactly one year ago. Since then, both staff and the community have worked together. You can write to us at letters@ottawacitizen.com
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Publishing date: Mar 12, 2021 • March 12, 2021 • 2 minute read • Paramedics from nine different services across eastern Ontario, along with the Queensway Carleton Hospital, set up a pop-up drive-through COVID-19 testing centre, with the help of the Ottawa Senators, at the Canadian Tire Centre in September. Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia
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OTTAWA The Queensway Carleton Hospital opened its COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Thursday, the second hospital clinic operating in Ottawa. The west end hospital tweeted that Maria Paulina Cortes, a medical office assistant from the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, was the first person to get the vaccine at the clinic. The hospital received its first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday to administer at the clinic. About 500 people a day will be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Queensway Carleton Hospital COVID-19 vaccination clinic initially. Capacity will increase to 1,000 people per day as vaccine supply increases.
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