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Even though the Pfizer Vaccine has already landed in Canada, those vaccines were limited to Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) and at The Ottawa Hospital. However, it seems like London could get the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine “within the next few days.”
The provincial government announced today that they will be getting up to 90,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses from the federal government before the end of the year. They also said that including the two hospitals that have already received vaccines, 17 more hospitals will be getting the vaccine. These include:
- Windsor Regional Hospital
- London Health Sciences Centre
- Grand River Hospital
- Halton Healthcare
- Hamilton Health Sciences
- William Osler Health System
- Trillium Health Partners
- Southlake Regional Health Centre
- Mackenzie Health
- Humber River Hospital
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Toronto East Health Network
- Unity Health Toronto
- Scarborough Health Network
- Lakeridge Health
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
Could not be happier to announce this vaccine rollout, or more grateful to @LHSCCanada for tremendous leadership and partnership!
Small number of doses will go to health care workers caring for those at greatest risk – hopefully more doses coming soon! https://t.co/pOf9Yp1Zhq
— Dr. Chris Mackie (@Healthmac) December 18, 2020
In a press release provided by the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU), they say that the Vaccines will be “over the next few days.” They say that the vaccines will be administered at the Western Fair District Agriplex, which was established as a field hospital earlier in the Pandemic. They also say that all the requirements needed to administer the vaccine, are in place to begin administering doses of the vaccines, once the initial shipment has arrived.
“We are very happy to be working with LHSC to deliver this vaccine to the frontline workers who have been working so diligently to keep their residents safe as the pandemic has grown,” Dr Chris Mackie, Local Medical officer of health said in a press release. “This is the beginning of the next phase of our pandemic response and we will get the vaccine to everyone who wants it as soon as we can. This will be a long journey, and we’re still a long way from being able to provide a COVID-19 vaccine to the public.”
“This is an important milestone in our response to the pandemic and LHSC is delighted to play a role in this historic vaccination program. It is a true partnership which will include a strong commitment from other areas of the health system such as primary care physicians and will grow as more vaccines come available and this transforms into a mass vaccination program,” Says Neil Johnson, Chief Operating Officer of London Health Sciences Centre in a press release.
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