COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Ontario, a top public health official said Wednesday.Dr. Dirk Huyer, who sits on the COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force, made the comments one day after the head of the task force, retired Gen.
Rick Hillier, said they would be included in the latter part of the first phase, or into the second phase.“Paramedics are within the health-care field and will be within the first phase which is extending to about March,” Huyer said.
Head of Ontario task force says paramedics will have to wait for vaccine “That’s the plan. I can’t speak specifically to what Gen.
Hillier was saying.”Huyer said they are first looking to vaccinate the most vulnerable populations within the first phase, beginning with long-term.