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Posted: May 11, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 11
A health-care worker preps to give Joey Callaghan a dose of the Moderna vaccine, right outside his apartment door.(Nicole Williams/CBC)
As a health-care worker counts down from three, Joey Callaghan braces himself for his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine not at a clinic or hospital of any kind, but right outside the door to his own apartment.
Callaghan was able to get his first dose Friday through a new program from Ottawa Health Team s primary care partners table. The team makes vaccination as accessible as possible to some of the city s most vulnerable, by offering them door-to-door in apartment complexes.
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Ottawa community health centres are operating an emergency service to help people who are least able to cope when COVID-19 hits.
Such as one family of five mom, dad, baby and children aged 4 and 6 who all contracted the virus.
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The mom was taken to the hospital, leaving the sick dad with a breastfeeding newborn and two young children to care for. When the mom was released from hospital and returned home, the dad grew sicker and was hospitalized.
Immigrants and racialized populations withstand a high risk of contracting the coronavirus, she said.
Eleven per cent of the area s residents are newcomers, compared to Ottawa s rate of about three per cent. More than half of the people living in the community are first-generation immigrants, and 65 per cent are non-white.
The area also has the highest rate of low-income families, with poverty affecting 41 per cent of households, according to data from the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study. Three-quarters of the households rent, compared to about one-third in Ottawa overall, and families there tend to be larger.
Many residents speak neither English nor French as their first language, and tend to work in health care or other front-line jobs such as cashiers or delivery drivers, Mohamoud said.
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