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Ontario will use the same vaccine scheduling software as a system in California, one criticized as cumbersome, with younger, whiter, wealthier and more tech-savvy people often ending up getting appointments, even though they're least impacted by COVID-19. torstar.co/BFfN50DvouZ

Ontario is building its own online booking portal for eventual mass vaccination. The portal, will be available in both English and French, and “work is underway to incorporate registration and eligibility for the end of February/early March.”: spokesperson torstar.co/BFfN50DvouZ

The My Turn vaccine portal was piloted in L.A. and San Diego and is being expanded. But there have been early reports of racial, income and even age disparities in who gets the shots, even as they are supposed to go to those over 65 and essential workers.
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.@latimes described seniors struggling with online appointments and paper forms handed out to lines of older mostly Black and Latino residents in hard-hit neighbourhoods to input in the system later as others, mostly white, booked ahead online.

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“They didn’t grow up with the internet. If you have to refresh your page a hundred times, that’s really difficult"

Ontario is building a web portal for mass COVID vaccination. Can we avoid the pitfalls plaguing U.S. systems?

Story by @maywarren11

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