TORONTO A campaign to vaccinate employees at their workplace is now underway in Peel Region in what officials are calling the first of its kind public-private partnership. Maple Lodge Farms hosted a pop-up clinic at its Brampton plant on Tuesday and will also be hosting clinics at its facilities in Mississauga. “I’m so happy to have it. I feel more safe,” said employee Maria De La Cruz, who was expecting to receive the shot Tuesday afternoon. Maple Lodge Farms says about 1,600 employees in Peel Region are eligible to receive the vaccine over the next two weeks if they chose to. However, the company says about 15 percent of eligible employees have expressed they are not interested in getting the shot.
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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 Canadian Press)
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Dr. Brian Goldman donned PPE and returned to Brampton to find out if workers and their families are getting access to the COVID vaccine. Brian talks to Dixon Pinto, who grew up in Brampton and is studying health inequities at McMaster University. Brian meets up with Dr. Shruthi Gowda, a family physician at an urgent-care clinic just a short drive from an Amazon warehou