January 14, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Sam Odrowski
Greater protection against COVID-19 is coming to Headwaters Health Care Centre (HHCC), since they started sending their staff to Brampton for vaccinations against COVID-19 last Friday.
“The Province has prioritized early doses to those that are most vulnerable. Frontline healthcare workers may be exposed to COVID regularly due to the nature of their work,” noted Danny Williamson, spokesperson for Wellington–Duffering–Guelph (WDG) Public Health.
Rachel Kalas, Registered Nurse at HHCC’s Emergency Department was among the first of the hospitals staff to receive her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
She has been part of the frontline response to the pandemic since its onset; caring for patients and families as well as supporting colleagues.
KITCHENER The first patient in the Guelph area has received a COVID-19 vaccine. Sarah Ricci was the first patient to get the shot. She’s the programs manager at Shelburne Long-Term Care north of Orangeville, which had one of the region’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks during the first wave of the pandemic. I feel great, happy to be here, she said. In total, 56 residents and 20 staff members contracted the disease. Twenty people died. Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health nurse Andrea Bothwell administered the first shot on Wednesday morning. Public health staff were familiarizing themselves with the process, which is different from other vaccines.