Author of the article: Taylor Campbell
Publishing date: Feb 18, 2021 • February 18, 2021 • 3 minute read • Kevin Marshall, director, facilities and capital planning with Windsor Regional Hospital, is shown at the University of Windsor s Windsor Hall on Feb. 10, 2021. The space will be used as a vaccination centre when enough vaccines are available. The local health unit is scouting out other vaccination centres and is seeking volunteers to assist with mass inoculations. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is seeking volunteers with medical backgrounds to help them get needles into arms this year.
Although the region remains in Phase 1 of the province’s three-phase COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, health unit officials say they may need support from residents with health-care know-how when mass inoculation begins.
An employee shows the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital in New York, U.S., December 21, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
With more than 48 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered in the US, local Jewish communities are partnering with health workers to inoculate survivors of the Holocaust, an aged and often vulnerable demographic that may not have easy access to the shot.
In the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, over 300 Holocaust survivors were vaccinated at a pop-up site organized at the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House, reported Gothamist Friday.
At the time, Palestinian Authority (PA) officials made clear that they had not asked Israel for help procuring vaccines, and neither wanted nor expected such help. Officials at that point had stated unequivocally that the PA had other vaccine sources lined up.
That should have been the end of the story. But it wasn’t.
Back in mid-December, the official Palestinian line was clear. As the
A senior official with the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health said that the Palestinians do not expect Israel to sell them, or purchase on their behalf, the vaccine from any country.
The official told the
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tweeted that Erie County will run out of it's vaccine allocation after Tuesday's clinics, but expects more to come soon.
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