Anita Quidangen is the first person in Ontario to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Toronto-based personal support worker at long-term care home Rekai Centre at Sherbourne Place was injected this morning with the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine shortly before noon.
She was one of five long-term care workers to receive the two-shot vaccine in Toronto today.
According to University Health Network (UHN), the vaccinations took place at the Michener Institute for Education, which has been set up as the pilot site for long-term care home workers to receive doses in Toronto.
The vaccine arrived earlier than expected, allowing Ontario to begin immunizing long-term care workers as part of the pilot stage of a three-phase vaccine rollout plan on Monday instead of Tuesday as initially planned.
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Lauren Grantz, Director of Pharmacy Operations for LVHN Pharmacy Services, displays one of the special packets prepared by LVHN including all the items that will be used to distribute each dose of COVID-19 vaccine to health network employees.Photo courtesy LVHN
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The Lehigh Valley’s first doses of the long-awaited coronavirus vaccine will arrive this week at our area’s two major hospital networks.
It will still be some time, possibly several months, before the medicine is widely available to the public, but it is a moment of hope amidst Pennsylvania’s overwhelming surge of new coronavirus infections and deaths. The state has reported nearly 100,000 new cases and lost 1,506 lives over the past 10 days.
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In the news we’ve been hoping for seemingly all year, the first of the COVID-19 vaccinations began in Quebec and Ontario, after arriving on Canadian soil last night.
Limited supplies of Pfizer’s BioNTech vaccine were administered at Toronto’s University Health Network for long-term care home staff, including nurses and personal support workers (PSW), beginning with Anita Quidangen a PSW of more than 30 years working at the Rekai Centre in downtown Toronto.