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.
COVID-19 outbreak declared at St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School in Hamilton
Hamilton is dealing with its fourth school outbreak in a week after declaring one at St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School on Tuesday.
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Hamilton s Catholic school board is dealing with 3 outbreaks, while the public board is managing 1
Posted: Feb 24, 2021 8:20 AM ET | Last Updated: February 24
Four Hamilton schools are dealing with an COVID-19 outbreak.(Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images)
The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board is dealing with its third COVID-19 outbreak after declaring one at St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School on Tuesday.
That s four outbreaks in Hamilton schools in one week.
Posted: Feb 21, 2021 12:23 PM ET | Last Updated: February 21
As of the end of day Feb. 19, a total of 26,738 vaccines had been administered 9,424 at mobile clinics and 17,314 at the fixed clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences. (Kate Dubinski/CBC)
Hamilton s top health official worried about COVID-19 variant, won t call for move to orange
Hamilton s medical officer of health says that while the number of outbreaks and COVID-19 cases in the city are declining from previous months, she remains very concerned about variants of the virus.
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Hamilton residents aged 80 and older will be among the next group of locals to get the COVID-19 vaccine as roughly 5,000 to 6,000 doses are on their way. St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s West 5th Campus is also opening a new vaccination clinic.