The City plans to open a large C-19 vaccination clinic at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre next week. The organization of how and where people may be vaccinated as supplies increase has fallen to Fire Chief Pegg. The MTCC clinic seems to be an attempt to develop a blueprint for how shots could be administered in non-medical settings as soon as this Spring.
No word on the role of physicians, pharmacists
The enormous task of making and moving enough vaccine to immunize billions of people is easily understood by most people. But many wonder about the potential for enlistment (however long the wait) with known local sources like private practice physicians and pharmacies. Chief Pegg has said that the MTCC clinic will operate for at least six weeks, at which point officials will use the lessons learned from the experience to create a “playbook” that will inform efforts to open additional mass vaccination facilities in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario.
Gov’t has terrifying view of death, infection, hospital overload
New modelling released Tuesday by the Ontario government seems to offer even more terrifying forecasts of C-19 death, illness and paralyzed hospitals. City News is one source of this information.
