BARRIE, ONT. A Barrie-based long-term care worker is the first person in Simcoe Muskoka to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. On Tuesday morning, a nurse with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit administered the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID -19 vaccine to Lori Black, a personal support worker caring for seniors at Victoria Village on Ross Street in Barrie. Black said she volunteered to be immunized to help others. I work on different units, so I can expose myself to over 100 residents, family members, coworkers within a week, so this is my way of fighting for them. They are the most vulnerable, and this is my way to help protect them, myself, as well as everybody else in my workplace as well as in the community, she said.
Barrie nurse becomes the first person in Simcoe Muskoka to get COVID-19 vaccine
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Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) nurse Lori Black is set to be the first person in Simcoe Muskoka to get the COVID 19 vaccine.
The vaccine will be administered at the temporary immunization clinic set-up by the Health Unit at the Royal Vicotria Regional Health Centre in Barrie.
SMDHU says the vaccine will not be readily available to the general public until 2021. The Health Unit estimates it will take six to nine months to vaccinate all Ontarians who opt-in for the shot.
Black will be getting the vaccine at 10 AM on Tuesday. She works at the Victoria Village long-term care home. SMDHU says she in the first among the priority group to be immunized during the first phase of the vaccine roll-out.