"We received over 60,000 submissions in approximately 30 hours," read an update from vice-president Wolf Klassen. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)ĬOVID-19 vaccines come with strict storage requirements and must be used within a few hours, so the hospital said it created an online form where people could sign up for a standby wait list. She wonders if a standby list would have helped her get it sooner.Ī staff member from Michael Garron Hospital administers a Moderna vaccine at a mobile vaccination site outside the Masjid Mosque in Toronto on Saturday April 10, 2021. The 50-year-old is now eligible for a shot under Phase 2 of the province's rollout, but her past attempts to get the vaccine were unsuccessful. Still, some are questioning why a waitlist isn't being used locally. That works out to 0.18 per cent.Įxamples of where waste occurs are when five doses, rather than the expected six, are pulled from a vial, or vials and syringes are dropped, according to Berry. Public health estimated 221 doses of the vaccine have been wasted since the rollout began locally, compared to a total of 120,573 that had been administered as of Thursday. So, that vaccine would be held for the next day's appointments and continue to go forward and be utilized." Public health reports very little vaccine waste "They thaw as much as they need and then utilize those doses as they go to.
"They know this is the gold, essentially, that they're handling, so they're very, very careful about it," she said of staff at the city's clinics.
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Elizabeth Richardson, the city's medical officer of health, also appears to have provided some insight on Hamilton's approach to ensuring shots aren't wasted during a media update on Tuesday. (Submitted by Hamilton Health Sciences)ĭr. Instead, a spokesperson for public health said local clinics only thaw out enough vaccines needed for the number of appointments that are booked each day.Īn immunization station is shown at Hamilton's first COVID-19 vaccine clinic. Standby lists are also being used in Kitchener-Waterloo and a hospital in Toronto to fill missed appointments and use up doses, but not at clinics run by Hamilton Public Health Services. The area's health unit is "proud to have an exceptionally low level of wastage (0.1 per cent) and to have never wasted a single dose due to inability to identify eligible candidates."
"The vaccine waitlist has been an integral part of the HNHU's delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine," she wrote in an email. The residents are drawn from a waitlist that has been used to contact hundreds of residents, with two to six people on the list managing to secure a vaccine at each of the area's clinics every day, according to Haldimand spokesperson Kyra Hayes. Each day, as appointments at COVID-19 vaccinations clinics wind down across Haldimand-Norfolk, people waiting for their shot received a call offering them a chance to roll up their sleeve and save a dose from being wasted.
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