Ontario expands COVID-19 vaccine to 17 hospitals including hardest-hit areas
by Lucas Casaletto
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 2:07 pm EDT
Ontario’s government has announced new vaccination sites where health care workers and essential caregivers who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes, and other congregate settings will be inoculated.
Over the next two weeks, the Ford government says it will gradually increase its COVID-19 vaccine rollout across 17 additional hospitals, including regions – like Toronto, Peel, and York – currently seeing the highest rates of COVID-19 infection.
Gen. Rick Hillier, the lead of Ontario’s COVID-19 taskforce, said the province is expecting to receive up to 90,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses from the federal government before the end of the year.
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Here’s a look at false and misleading claims circulating as the United States rolled out the newly authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to some health care workers and others. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
CLAIM: A 42-year-old nurse in Alabama died after she received the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.
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THE FACTS: No health care workers died after Alabama began administering COVID-19 vaccines to them on Tuesday. Yet posts online began falsely claiming that a nurse had died after receiving the vaccine. The posts circulated on Facebook and Twitter, with some users suggesting it was their aunt who had died or they had received the information from a close friend. Social media users shared screenshots of text messages that said, “omg just found out my aunt de
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Over 2,000 Ontarians got COVID-19 vaccine shots this week, but there s a long way to go: Rick Hillier
Retired general Rick Hillier says Ontario has learned a lot in the first few days of vaccinations, but there is a long road ahead.
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Retired general Rick Hillier is overseeing the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in Ontario.(Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press)
Published Friday, December 18, 2020 12:25PM EST Last Updated Friday, December 18, 2020 12:27PM EST The Ford 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.