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Article content The Northwestern Health Unit has received 300 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and has begun rolling them out to long-term care residents in the region, the local health unit’s top doctor says. The NWHU’s medical officer of health, Dr. Kit Young Hoon, said on Tuesday that this current allocation will be adequate to give residents in long-term care homes and elder care facilities in First Nation communities their first dose of the vaccine. Young Hoon said due to the shortage at the national level, the health unit has been directed by the province to focus on giving vac...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Unity Health Toronto, Katie Cooper The most common question being asked of Dr. Karina Top is “whether people in priority groups ([such as] health care workers) who have weakened immune systems or are pregnant should get the COVID-19 vaccine,” says the pediatric infectious disease physician and associate professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, whose research focus is vaccine safety, including for immune-compromised patients. “Whether they should get the vaccine comes down to the balance of their risk of exposure to COVID-19, [their] risk of severe COVID-19 i...

COVID-19 immunization rates limited by supply of vaccine Total Shares The vaccine remains in short supply as Waterloo Region health officials prioritize the immunization of long-term care and retirement home residents. Mobile clinics began rolling out January 12, helping to boost region-wide totals to 12,000 shots by week’s end as stock on hand was used up and officials awaited another shipment this week. “The priority right now is to transfer the Pfizer vaccine to the mobile clinics so that vaccinations can continue in the mobile clinics with long-term care and retirement home residents ...

A member of Ontario's COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force has resigned after she travelled outside of Canada in December, the premier's office says.

A member of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution task force is out of her role following the revelation that she travelled out of the country in December.