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This Ottawa family doctor s pop-up vaccination clinic delivered 220 shots in a day
The guerrilla vaccination blitz nicknamed Jabapalooza was physician Nili Kaplan-Myrth s answer to the chaotic appointment process in Ontario and what she sees as the baffling underuse of family doctors
May 5, 2021 Kaplan-Myrth uses chalk to designate a waiting area outside her medical clinic in Ottawa (Photograph by Justin Tang)
You can see the thought process play out in the body language when someone walks by.
First, it’s: “What the heck are they doing? That can’t be a street party.” Then they move to: “Wait . . . are they giving out shots?” And then there’s the nervous hedging: “Should I ask, just in case?” But eventually, most notice the sign, scrawled on a piece of paper ripped off an examination table and draped over a sandwich board borrowed from the neighbourhood bookstore: “JABAPALOOZA. COVID-19 VACCINE. FULLY BOOKED.”