The Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health is currently looking to optimize its vaccine strategy in 2022. In order to do so, they have released a survey for all First Nation, Inuit, and Métis community members. Whether you’re fully vaccinated, planning to get vaccinated, or vaccine-hesitant, they would like to hear from you. The results from […]
The push to get thousands of Ottawa children vaccinated against Covid -19 begins in earnest today, Thursday December 2nd. Ottawa Public Health begins a series of after school clinics for children aged 5 to 11 this afternoon. Follow the OPH link for a list of clinic locations, dates and times. OPH says 10,000 appointments will […]
This afternoon, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, accompanied by Health Minister Christine Elliott and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore, announced the rollout of an “enhanced vaccine certificate”, which will allow certain establishments to only permit fully vaccinated attendees. According to Ford, the certificate program will be rolled out in two phases. Starting on September 22nd, […]
Are you looking forward to the Escapade Music Festival? Are you still waiting to be fully vaccinated? The Escapade Music Festival is holding a pop-up vaccine clinic this weekend. The clinic is in partnership with Ottawa Public Health. This comes days after the festival announced that ticket holders would need to be fully vaccinated in […]
Over this weekend I got my final and second dose of Moderna. I live in Ottawa but was fortunate to be vaccinated on my reserve in Kitigian-Zibi Anishinabeg, which is an hour north of Ottawa. I got my first dose in March. It was well-organized and run by many nurses and staff from my reserve […]
Ontarians aged 40 and older can now book COVID-19 vaccine appointments across the province. The province is opening eligibility to the age cohort through its vaccine booking portal. Ontario is expecting millions of vaccines in the coming weeks and is aiming to get first shots to 65 per cent of adults by the end of […]
The province announced on Monday that urban Indigenous people can now book their second COVID-19 vaccine dose at the manufacturer-recommended 3-4 week period after receiving their first dose. This only applied to Indigenous people on reserve in a previous provincial vaccine rollout update. Now, First Nation, Métis and Inuit can book both doses within a […]
Six Ottawa pharmacies are due to receive shipments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, May 7th. This is part of the province’s vaccine rollout plan that involves 60 pharmacies across Ontario in hot spot areas of Ottawa, Durham, Hamilton, Windsor-Essex and York. These shipments will be eligible for those born in 2003 or earlier. Appointment […]
People in Ontario aged 50+ are now eligible to book vaccination appointments online. Essential workers who are unable to work from home are also included in the eligibility. Who is Eligible? The newly eligible workers include those in the education, child-care, food and manufacturing sectors. People aged 18 and up can also book vaccine appointments if they […]
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for kids aged 12-15 by Health Canada. Back in December, it was approved for people 16 years of age and older. Last month, Pfizer put forth an application to expand the eligible age group. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved it yet, but is expected to […]