Posted: Jul 15, 2021 6:18 PM ET | Last Updated: July 15
Paul Johnson, head of Hamilton s pandemic response centre, has been appointed deputy city manager, community and social services, at the City of Toronto. (City of Toronto)
94 people living at Village Apartments get COVID-19 shots as outbreak continues
When public health offered residents of the Village Apartments a dedicated time slot to get vaccinated for COVID-19, the building responded in a big way, with 94 people receiving their shots in a single evening.
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How Paul Johnson uses his referee experience as head of Hamilton s pandemic response centre
Paul Johnson, the director of the city s emergency operations centre, says it will be a shame if the city goes back to the way it was before the pandemic.
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The city can learn a lot from this experience, Johnson says, including how to help the most vulnerable
Posted: Feb 23, 2021 2:04 PM ET | Last Updated: February 23
Paul Johnson is the director of the city s emergency operations centre. (Submitted by City of Hamilton)
Right before the City of Hamilton activated its emergency operations centre (EOC), Paul Johnson remembers travelling to Windsor and Burlington, judging basketball officials, and packing into locker rooms.
Posted: Feb 23, 2021 11:39 AM ET | Last Updated: February 23
Hamilton s homeless community is dealing with multiple COVID-19 outbreaks in the second wave of the virus.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Hamilton s shelter system held off large COVID-19 outbreaks for almost a year, but the relentless virus has now infected 44 people across Hamilton s shelters in the last three weeks.
Paul Johnson, director of the city s emergency operations centre, says it shouldn t be seen as a failure of the system. The longer this pandemic went on, the more it was possible. And we ve seen cases in the shelter system throughout this. We ve been able to catch them though before and isolate, and now the volume has gone up a bit, he said on Monday.