The Southwestern Public Health Unit has passed an important milestone.
The local health unit that covers St. Thomas and both Elgin and Oxford County has announced that more than 100,000 residents have been vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Through a combination of pop-up clinics, family physician and pharmacy vaccinators, as well as mass immunization clinics, nearly 48% of the roughly 211,000 people living in the region have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
SWPH notes that their COVID-19 Immunization Task Force has followed the provincial government’s vaccination roll out strategy as supply has allowed. To date, 77% of the 80+ age group,
87% of the 70+ age group and 81% of the 60+ age group have had at least one dose.
“I am extremely grateful for the collaboration I see across this region. Public health shares a vision with local municipalities, primary care providers, community health centres, pharmacies, emergency medical services and others of a community that is safer and healthier due to the gift of vaccination,” says Jaime Fletcher, Program Manager overseeing the Task Force.
