Some highlights of Ontario's #COVID19 rollout:
1. Centralized online and telephone booking to start in mid-March.
2. Mass vaccine clinics & community centers will be a major focus for vaccinations.
3. Pharmacies will administer 10-20% of vaccines, and scale up further.
1. Centralized online and telephone booking to start in mid-March.
2. Mass vaccine clinics & community centers will be a major focus for vaccinations.
3. Pharmacies will administer 10-20% of vaccines, and scale up further.
4. Each Public Health Unit expected to vaccinate a minimum of 10K people per day.
5. Larger Public Health Units will vaccinate significantly more. E.g. Toronto expected to vaccinate 400K per week when things get rolling, through 9 mass vaccine sites.
5. Larger Public Health Units will vaccinate significantly more. E.g. Toronto expected to vaccinate 400K per week when things get rolling, through 9 mass vaccine sites.
6. Details of the prioritization within Phase 2 (e.g. underlying medical conditions, etc) will come out shortly.
The task force has submitted their recommendations to Cabinet. This will be publicly released asap when approved.
The task force has submitted their recommendations to Cabinet. This will be publicly released asap when approved.
7. (my editorialization): We need an all hands on deck approach...families, community-based organizations, caregivers, etc. will need to identify and support community-dwelling elderly to 1) sign up for vaccines, 2) mobilize to vaccine centers closest to them.
8. Also mentioned today - area codes disproportionately impacted by #COVID19 (e.g. racialized & low income neighbourhoods) will have strategically located mass vaccine centers, mobile vaccine centers, community centers, different (lower) age cutoffs for vaccination.
9. Primary care is actively involved. They will be administering vaccination in mass clinics for now.
When more stable vaccines available (AZ, J+J, etc) they will be able to vaccinate in their clinics.
When more stable vaccines available (AZ, J+J, etc) they will be able to vaccinate in their clinics.
10: *Approximate* timelines as per General Hillier today:
*Mid March: 80+ years
*April 15: 75+
*May 1st: 70+
*June 1st: 65+
*July: 60+
BUT:
*see #8 above -> age cutoffs may be lower in several regions more heavily impacted.
*Access to more vaccines = earlier timelines.
*Mid March: 80+ years
*April 15: 75+
*May 1st: 70+
*June 1st: 65+
*July: 60+
BUT:
*see #8 above -> age cutoffs may be lower in several regions more heavily impacted.
*Access to more vaccines = earlier timelines.
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