For some, vaccination poses a moral dilemma: Do I wait so others can get their shot?
For some people, getting called to be vaccinated creates an ethical dilemma: do they get it now, or let someone in greater need go first?
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Tracey Brooks of Stoney Creek says she would likely qualify but feels like others should go first
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Posted: Apr 15, 2021 3:55 PM ET | Last Updated: April 15
A sign for a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Palais des Congrès de Gatineau in April 2021. For some, being called for the vaccine has created an ethical dilemma - do they get it now, or let people they feel need it more go first?(David Richard/Radio-Canada)
Posted: Mar 02, 2021 1:41 PM ET | Last Updated: March 2
A client of the Wesley Urban Ministries Day Centre gets the COVID-19 vaccine. He was nervous to get vaccinated, but was surprised at how quickly it was over.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Two weeks ago, COVID-19 found its way into the Wesley Urban Ministries Day Centre. But on Tuesday, so did one of the strongest tools to stop it the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Public health workers were at the centre, the site of an active outbreak with three confirmed cases, vaccinating staff and clients.
Lonny Nichols, 55, was one of the first to get vaccinated at the centre on Catharine Street North.
COVID-19 vaccines roll out for workers, residents in Hamilton s homeless shelter system
Dr. Kerry Beal, the lead physician at Shelter Health Network, says it s thrilling to see vaccines being administered across Hamilton s shelter system.
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Posted: Feb 23, 2021 11:39 AM ET | Last Updated: February 23
Hamilton s homeless community is dealing with multiple COVID-19 outbreaks in the second wave of the virus.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Hamilton s shelter system held off large COVID-19 outbreaks for almost a year, but the relentless virus has now infected 44 people across Hamilton s shelters in the last three weeks.
Paul Johnson, director of the city s emergency operations centre, says it shouldn t be seen as a failure of the system. The longer this pandemic went on, the more it was possible. And we ve seen cases in the shelter system throughout this. We ve been able to catch them though before and isolate, and now the volume has gone up a bit, he said on Monday.