“I was going to wait for one in The Pas but I thought I’d better get one here when I had a chance,” said Kitzul, who’s worked in health care for about half a century and had no doubts about his decision to get vaccinated. “I think it’s a very good thing. It’s going to help people. They should get it. There’s no excuse. If anybody refuses it and they end up on an ICU unit, I don’t feel sorry for them.”
The first two Thompson residents to receive the vaccine at the TRCC are at the beginning of their health care careers. Dylan Stacey, a fourth-year nursing student at University College of the North and a health care aide at the medical, surgical and pediatric ward on the second floor of Thompson General Hospital, said he was a little nervous about getting the vaccine but hopes that it will be the first step in an eventual return to life as it was before COVID-19 arrived in Manitoba.