The head of Ontario’s vaccination campaign says more than half of Ontarians are expected to be immunized by midsummer.
Retired general Rick Hillier says the province hopes to have inoculated more than a million health-care workers and people in other vulnerable groups by the end of the winter.
Hillier also says the Moderna vaccine will begin arriving in the province today, with some 15 million vaccines set to arrive in Ontario during the spring.
The delivery comes in the wake of harsh criticism after the province scaled-down vaccination operations over the holidays.
Hillier says the decision to close clinics over Christmas Day and Boxing Day was the wrong one.
He says he is now asking Health Canada whether the Moderna shot could be used as a single dose — rather than two — with the follow up shot being administered from a later delivery.
