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The group was involved in helping Canadians navigate various booking systems and their eligibility requirements, and providing residents with information such as appointment and vaccine availability at mass-vaccination sites, hospitals, pharmacies, family doctors and pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics involved in the Canadian rollout of COVID-19 ...
Health Canada received a submission from Moderna on June 29, 2023, for yet another reformulated COVID-19 vaccine based on the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant of SARS-CoV-2. [131] The updated version was tested in a small human trial of 101 participants who had previously received four doses of previous formulations of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
On December 9, 2020, Health Canada approved the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.Vaccines were distributed amongst the provinces by the Federal government. [3] Ontario received an initial delivery of 6,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine [4] of a total of 90,000 doses to be received before the end of 2020. [5]
The Ontario government announced that anyone age 18 and older will be able to book an appointment to get a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of May through the provincial system, as early as the week of ...
Millions of the newly formulated vaccines have shipped out since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on them last week for ages 6 months and up. Others signed up for an ...
Users of this vaccine passport, the first in Canada, faced fewer COVID-19 public health restrictions. [2] By early July, the demand for the paper vaccine passports temporarily overwhelmed the system. At the same time, the province reached a new "marker in the pandemic"—the COVID-19 vaccines supply exceeded "demand on a daily basis." [2] [44]
Toronto's Accessibility Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines [1] is a working committee created by the City of Toronto to reduce barriers to COVID-19 vaccine access for people with disabilities. [2] [3] [4] It advocates for the needs of people with disabilities and arranges special vaccination events to meet their unique needs.
In Ontario, under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, a public health unit (PHU) is an official health agency established by a municipality. [2] PHUs administer health promotion and disease prevention programs to inform the public about healthy life-styles, communicable disease control, immunization, food premises inspection, healthy growth and development, health education for all age ...