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Doctor urges more vaccines for Brampton to quell sky-high COVID-19 cases Share on Facebook Share by Email Test positivity hit 22.4 per cent this week, compared to less than eight per cent for Ontario overall Posted: 7 Hours Ago Last Updated: 3 Hours Ago A person walks past an Amazon Fulfillment Centre during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brampton, Ont., Tuesday. Brampton's COVID test positivity rate reached 22.4 per cent this week, in part because of crowded working and living conditions. (Nathan Denette/The Canadi...

Article content It is mind boggling to continue to hear the news out of Peel Region, one of Ontario’s worst COVID-19 hotspots, one of the places we are told the virus is spreading inside workplaces. We have been told for months that workplaces, like food processing plants, warehouses and more are the hotspots for Peel. But once again, Peel Public Health is pushing back on vaccinating those workers. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or LILLEY: Peel's top doc still resisting workplace vaccinations Back to video On Wednesday, health officials again...

  TORONTO -- The owner of a Scarborough business recovering after a serious COVID-19 outbreak says it’s time that Ontario join other provinces in vaccinating essential workers at risk during an outbreak — and some emergency room doctors agree with him. Al Abdelmalek says he was able to get some workers vaccinated only because they were older, and had to hope that other measures like sanitization and isolation would protect his remaining employees. “We had people here who tested negative. They were scared. Having to have the vaccine for those people will make sure the negative peopl...

Article content They’ve replaced the general with a colonel, the tank commander with the combat surgeon and in doing so, Ontario is also moving up the vaccination of frontline workers. The change at the top of Ontario’s vaccination task force comes as Rick Hillier, the retired general hired to establish Ontario’s vaccine distribution system left his four-month post on Wednesday. On Thursday, Homer Tien, a member of the task force, a colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces and a former combat surgeon was selected to lead the vaccination efforts. Tien, currently the President and CEO of Orng...