Let These Stories Of Front-Line Workers Getting Vaccinated Give You Hope “I just wanted to cry, I felt so relieved.” After almost a year of death and isolation, everyone could use a bit of hope. Retired Gen. Rick Hillier, who’s in charge of distributing Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccines, said he’s clinging to stories of people receiving their shots. “This is the only light in the COVID-19 tragedy right now,” he told reporters at Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s press conference Tuesday. Last week, he said, a woman in her 90s had her entire extended family on Zoom to watch her get her first vaccine dose.