Posted: Mar 05, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: March 5
Vaccination campaign for Indigenous residents expands to larger facility
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1:04Connie Siedule, executive director of the Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team, says Indigenous residents experience health disparities that could make COVID-19 infections more severe, which is why members of Ottawa’s Inuit community are included in phase one of vaccinations.1:04
The campaign to get the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of Ottawa s Indigenous community has been so successful, it s ramping up with a move to a larger facility and expanding eligibility to adults 50 years and older.
The St-Laurent Complex at 525 Côté St. is equipped to give the jab to 300 people a day, compared to the original vaccination site at the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health on Montreal Road, which was vaccinating a daily maximum of 90 patients.
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Posted: Feb 24, 2021 12:02 PM ET | Last Updated: February 24
Seniors 80 and older in a number of high-risk communities in Ottawa will be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine starting March 5, but officials warn demand will far exceed supply in the initial stages of city s vaccine rollout.(Jean Delise/CBC)
Seniors 80 and older living in several high-risk communities in Ottawa will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at a pop-up clinic on March 5, councillors heard Wednesday morning.
Older adults and all adult recipients of chronic home care living in Ledbury, Herongate, Heatherington, Emerald Woods, Sawmill Creek, Ridgemont and Riverview communities with higher rates of the coronavirus will be able to get their first vaccine shots late next week.
Posted: Feb 18, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 18
Allison Fisher, executive director of Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, says she s happy to know that the vaccine will help reunite Indigenous elders with their families. (Francis Ferland/CBC)
After a winter storm delayed delivery by a day, hundreds of Indigenous elders in Ottawa will get their first COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday a milestone for the community.
The Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, in partnership with Ottawa Public Health, will administer the first round of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to about 340 seniors aged 70 years or older.
Vaccinating them first is a priority for the community, said Wabano s executive director Allison Fisher. She said the centre made about 26,000 wellness checks on isolated seniors since the pandemic began.
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Some members of Ottawa’s Indigenous community will be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Thursday, as part of a partnership between the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health and Ottawa Public Health.
The special vaccine clinic for Indigenous Ottawa residents over the age of 70 was supposed to start on Wednesday, but this week’s snowstorm delayed a needed shipment of Pfizer vaccines and pushed the clinic back by a day.
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Wabano spokeswoman Catherine Henry said the clinic is now expected to begin Thursday and run until Saturday, vaccinating 90 people each day.