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“We have yet to experience any meaningful engagement initiated by this municipal body or the mayor or anyone in the administration,” said Leslie McCurdy, acting chair of the Black Council of Windsor-Essex, during an online meeting of city council on Monday.
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McCurdy said it’s “disingenuous, at best” that the Black Council of Windsor-Essex was listed as a consulted group on the initiative.
According to McCurdy, the municipality’s conversations with its black community have been “superficial and controlled.”
TORONTO A hospital in the border city of Windsor, Ont., has asked the federal government for special permission to access surplus COVID-19 vaccines in neighbouring Michigan, its CEO said on Tuesday. The application under an existing program allows Health Canada to approve urgently needed drugs, including those used for fighting communicable diseases, that are not available in Canada. We don t have enough vaccines to satisfy our existing demand, said David Musyj, head of Windsor Regional Hospital. The region in southwestern Ontario still needs hundreds of thousands of doses about 200,000 for first dosing, plus another 400,000 to ensure its population is fully vaccinated. At the same time, pharmacies and other vaccination sites across the border are struggling to use their supplies due to a lack of demand.
Hospital in Windsor applies to access surplus COVID-19 vaccines from Detroit
by Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press
Posted May 11, 2021 2:12 pm EDT
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TORONTO – A hospital in the border city of Windsor, Ont., has asked the federal government for special permission to access surplus COVID-19 vaccines in neighbouring Michigan, its CEO said on Tuesday.
The application under an existing program allows Health Canada to approve urgently needed drugs, including those used for fighting communicable diseases, that are not available in Canada.
“We don’t have enough vaccines to satisfy our existing demand,” said David Musyj, head of Windsor Regional Hospital.