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  • Toronto mutual aid group is helping people book vaccine appointments

    A week ago, a woman with a 91-year-old homebound mother called Mercedes Ferrer in hopes of securing a first-shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. The caller's...
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  • Ontario reduces interval for second COVID-19 vaccine doses

    Everyone in Ontario who is eligible for a second COVID-19 vaccine dose and wants one will get the shot by the end of August, Premier...
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  • Updated: Here’s the list of people in Ontario eligible for COVID-19 vaccines in Phase 2

    May 11, 2021: This post was updated to reflect the booking eligibility expanding to the second group of essential workers and people with at-risk conditions...
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  • Playing politics with the pandemic

    Mudslinging becomes status quo during COVID crisis Re Doug Ford Swings Into Re-election Mode (NOW Online, May 4). It boggles my mind that anyone can...
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  • On the frontlines of a mobile vaccination clinic at Jane and Finch

    As a physician working on the COVID frontlines in mobile testing, it has been a year of witnessing the vulnerable punished and watching the energy...
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  • DJs help make vaccination a celebration at Toronto pop-up clinics

    As vaccine distribution has picked up speed, some Toronto pop-up vaccination clinics in COVID-19 hot spots are booking DJs to add extra energy and excitement...
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  • Immunization Week shines a light on vaccine hesitancy in Canada

    It’s World Immunization Week, which doesn’t ordinarily mean much in this part of the planet where vaccines for a raft of common diseases are readily...
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  • Vaccine Hunters Canada is keeping people up-to-date on availability

    COVID-19 vaccine appointments are getting cancelled and public health units in Toronto hot spots are reporting that they can’t do what Doug Ford says they...
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  • Doug Ford’s vaccine rollout a dangerous race against time

    Got my vaccine on Saturday. It’s a big relief. I’m part of a new priority group – over 50 years of age and living in...
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  • Eight questions answered on the AstraZeneca vaccine controversy

    What’s really happening? It's a little more complicated than some of the headlines would have us believe. On Monday, Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)...
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  • Will AstraZeneca reversal spread vaccine hesitancy?

    Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is recommending the expansion of the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. The change was announced at a technical...
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  • “Hoarding” of vaccines is ruining global COVID effort

    Canada’s rollout of the coronavirus vaccine is meeting with some sharp criticism from some of the usual suspects in the Ottawa press corp. Last week,...
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  • Doug Ford’s COVID-19 crash and burn

    Ontario marked a coronavirus milestone last week – January 25, 2021, was the anniversary of the first COVID case in the province. It was called...
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  • Find out how soon you can get the COVID-19 vaccine in Canada

    This year's probably wasn't the most optimistic New Year's countdown you've ever experienced in Canada, but there is reason to feel 2021 might be better...
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  • Personal support worker becomes first person in Ontario to receive COVID-19 vaccine

    Anita Quidangen is the first person in Ontario to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Toronto-based personal support worker at long-term care home Rekai Centre at...
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