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Hope is building that frontline hospital and long-term care workers soon will be fully immunized against COVID-19.
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said this week that, as the supply of Pfizer vaccine increases throughout this month, the province may accelerate second doses for the workers.
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That’s good news for Dr. Laura Shoots, an emergency room doctor at Brantford General Hospital.
“A lot of people have been advocating for this for a long time,” said Shoots.
TORONTO An Ontario emergency-room physician is calling on the province to offer second-dose protection to front-line health-care workers sooner rather than later as cases of the highly-contagious COVID-19 variants climb. “Is that enough, to say one dose is good enough?” Dr. Laura Shoots told CTV News Toronto. “I think it just highlights how little the province cares about our healthcare workers and their safety.” Shoots highlights the case of a colleague, a fellow emergency room doctor who caught the virus from a patient three weeks after he received his first dose of the vaccine. Although the first dose of the vaccine has been demonstrated to offer significant protection, there is still some risk of contracting COVID-19.