Ontario issues 'call to arms' for volunteers to help boost vaccination effort
CTV
The Ontario government is calling on firefighters, dentists, retired doctors and nurses and anyone else who can to help accelerate the third-dose vaccine campaign as COVID-19 infections climb higher.
A “call to arms” issued by Premier Doug Ford’s office Wednesday says that the government is calling on “businesses, volunteers and retired health professionals to help further boost capacity and get more boosters into arms sooner.”
Ontario health officials have said that they would like to hit 300,000 doses per day as the province tries to distribute as many booster shots as possible to help curb the spread of the more contagious Omicron variant.
The most contagious iteration of the COVID-19 virus so far, Omicron has been driving up case counts in Ontario and in other jurisdictions around the world. The province reported nearly 4,400 cases Wednesday and some infectious disease experts have predicted that we could soon see 10,000 daily cases.
Ontario has scrambled to once again scale up its vaccine distribution capacity and has had some success. The province has given out an average of 164,000 doses per day over the past seven days. That's up significantly from the previous seven days, when an average of just around 80,000 doses were given out each day.
