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TORONTO The Ontario government has released a list of 17 additional hospital sites that will receive doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks. The first 6,000 doses of the vaccine received by the province were sent to Toronto’s University Health Network and The Ottawa Hospital earlier this week. So far more than 2,300 health-care workers have received their first dose of the vaccine at those two sites with more expected to be vaccinated in the coming weeks. The province, however, has planned a wider rollout for when it receives its next shipment of the vaccine. It says that a total of 17 additional hospital sites have been chosen to “to continue vaccinating health care workers and essential caregivers who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings caring for seniors.”
Windsor Regional Hospital will be one of seventeen hospitals in Ontario to begin receiving doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the next two weeks, the province announced Friday.
Hospital officials say Windsor Regional will receive a “limited supply” of the vaccines but the exact number or the exact date for delivery is not yet known.
They say first group the Ontario government is focusing on vaccinating are employees who work at long term care and retirement Homes that are not in outbreak in Grey (lockdown) and red (control) regions in the province, including Windsor and-Essex.
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Housing Secretary Dr. Ben Carson has described his frightening experience with COVID-19 – as well as his effort to treat it with an unproven remedy followed by a special intervention by President Trump to get him experimental drugs.
And based on the symptoms he described, the unproven remedy he tried could have even contributed to his symptoms.
Carson, who was hospitalized last month after testing positive for the coronavirus, told Fox News his symptoms got so bad he couldn t even keep water down.
It began with fever, chills and some aches, said Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon.
Housing Secretary Dr. Ben Carson was hospitalized last month after testing positive for the coronavirus
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BROCKVILLE A local church is hoping Elizabethtown-Kitley Township will clear it of charges after a man died while having an unauthorized fire on its property earlier this year
The township’s fire department has charged Smiths Falls-based Bethel Pentecostal Church, which owns the piece of property on Leacock Road where the fire took place, just over $20,000 after they were forced to respond to the illegal blaze on Apr. 28.
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The incident occurred after Gilbert Johnston who had permission to be on the property had been using an outdoor fire pit in close proximity to his seasonal trailer when it spread to and engulfed the structure.