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Parc-Extension, which has reported the highest rate of working poor in Montreal, is also posting the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the city, according to newly-released figures by public health authorities.
To close that gap, health workers have gone door-to-door urging Parc-Ex residents to get vaccinated. Vans have driven up and down streets with a loudspeaker delivering the message not only in French, but eight other languages.
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And on Tuesday, authorities set up a walk-in vaccine clinic at the Assunna Annabawiya Mosque on Hutchison St., open not just to Muslims but to Sikhs and those of other faiths. Turnout at the clinic which will open again Wednesday exceeded organizers’ expectations, but challenges remain.
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Dr. Joanne Liu, a pediatric emergency room physician and former international president of Doctors Without Borders, is joining the McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health as a professor “focusing on pandemic and health emergencies.” Liu, who grew up in Quebec City, got her degree in medicine at McGill in 1991. She joined Doctors Without Borders in 1996, working with Malian refugees in Mauritania, and co-ordinating aid projects around the world after natural disasters and epidemics like the Ebola outbreak in 2014. She also sits on the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
If Quebec and Canada can get to an “85-ish per cent” vaccination rate, there’s a chance we can attain a type of herd immunity that would relegate COVID-19 to the ranks of an annoying common cold, immunologists forecast. Picking an exact percentage is problematic, Quebec’s public health director Horacio Arruda said Tuesday, because it depends on