‘Nice that you have somewhere close by’: Toronto libraries host COVID vaccine clinics
COVID-19 vaccine.She’d received her second dose last summer but found it tough to secure a third when the province made them available for all Ontarians in late December.This week, while scouring the internet for pop-up clinics, she learned of a walk-in site opening at a local library branch just a 10-minute bus ride away from her home.
Vax And Read campaign to bring COVID-19 vaccines to Toronto Public Library branches By Thursday afternoon, both 31-year-old Kok and her mother were able to get their boosters in the library’s glass-walled conference room where half a dozen vaccine stations had been set up.“It’s nice that you have somewhere close by, you don’t have to go downtown.
I just feel lucky. Finally I got it,” Kok said in an interview at the Maria A. Shchuka Library.The library clinic is part of the City of Toronto’s new “Vax and Read” campaign that launched this week as part of a hyper-local strategy to target areas with low vaccine uptake.Twelve public libraries will host walk-in vaccine clinics on various days until March 16.
Toronto announces major public events, festivals to proceed for spring and summer 2022 Kok, a retail worker, said she was glad to see a library clinic in her densely populated neighbourhood, which hosts many immigrant households.“I feel like (the neighbourhood) has that stigma to it, so it’s not really cared (about).
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