Only 40 per cent of Maimonides staff have agreed to get COVID-19 vaccine
MONTREAL -- Now that many residents at Maimonides Geriatric Centre who wanted a COVID vaccine have gotten one, health authorities have a new challenge on their hands: addressing the vaccine hesitancy that exists among its employees. “It is a super-priority,” the associate CEO of the West-Central-Montreal CIUSSS told CTV News during a phone interview. Francine Dupuis confirmed that while 95 per cent of residents agreed to be inoculated, only 35 to 40 per cent of employees have signalled a desire to get the shots, a rate that she says “is very low.” “Every effort is on the tab...
Source: montreal.ctvnews.ca