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London’s mayor and top doctor are pushing the province for more COVID-19 vaccines, saying the area is by now about 20,000 doses short of what it should have received since the start of the rollout.
The Middlesex-London Health Unit has the capacity at its four mass vaccinations to deliver about 7,000 shots a day but is stuck doing about 3,500 because of the supply shortfall, the city’s top doctor said Tuesday.
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“In terms of supply, we are still lagging behind in this community,” medical officer of health Chris Mackie said.
Strathroy, ON, Canada / 105.7 Strathroy Today
Feb 11, 2021 8:12 AM
Miranda Bothwell was always involved with summer camps and sports in high school, and translated that excellence into teaching, becoming the Public Education Coordinator with Middlesex London Paramedic Service. She’s now been in that position for seven years and started in the paramedic profession because she loved being engaged locally, and having the opportunity to interact with a wide range of people.
Exeter, ON, Canada / 90.5 Exeter Today
Feb 11, 2021 8:10 AM
Miranda Bothwell was always involved with summer camps and sports in high school, and translated that excellence into teaching, becoming the Public Education Coordinator with Middlesex London Paramedic Service. She’s now been in that position for seven years.
Bothwell started in the paramedic profession because she loved being engaged locally, and having the opportunity to interact with a wide range of people.
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Without them, the Woodman Avenue explosion would have been much worse.
Thursday afternoon, London police saluted the officers, first responders, behind-the-scenes staff members, and ordinary citizens who without pausing to think about their own safety prevented the blast on Aug. 14, 2019, in London’s Old East Village from becoming an even greater tragedy.
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“In the face of unknown danger . . . heroes emerged from all directions to offer assistance” police Chief Steve Williams said during a 20-minute virtual ceremony. He prefaced that remark by saying he doesn’t use the term “hero” lightly.
LONDON, ONT. A pair of recent studies looking at how health-care workers are navigating the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic show rising anxiety. The findings from a recent poll on how Ontario’s registered practical nurses (RPNs) are coping with the second wave of COVID-19 are shocking. Seventy-one per cent are experiencing a breaking point, and I know what a breaking point looks like. It is devastation, at a time when you can t be devastated, says the CEO of the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (WeRPN), Dianne Martin. What s even more alarming, is the lack of support for these nurses.