THUNDER BAY - For the past several months, teams have been travelling to remote communities throughout Northern Ontario to ensure vulnerable populations are protected from COVID-19, and with more than 25,000 doses of vaccine administered, the operation is being called a complete success.
Ornge began Operation Remote Immunity on Feb. 1 and it was tasked with immunizing people living in 32 remote First Nations communities throughout the region.
“Running an operation like this with that many moving parts in the middle of winter in Northern Ontario was challenging,” said Wade Durham, chief operating officer of medical operations with Ornge.
“Luckily everything cooperated, including the weather. The other challenge was moving the vaccine, which is a delicate vaccine and keeping it in a frozen state until we got to communities so it could be administered. A little bit of luck and a lot of planning, the mission was a complete success.”
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