COVID-19 in the lobby of their Windsor, Ont., apartment building.“Everybody that comes into that room that sits down at my table to get the vaccination is extremely pleased,” the community paramedic said in a recent interview.Scott’s team with Essex-Windsor EMS is one of several across Ontario bringing vaccinations to homebound seniors who can’t get to immunization clinics.The program in Windsor started earlier this month, bringing pop-up clinics to apartment buildings with a high number of eligible seniors.
A similar project is underway in Sudbury, Ont., while paramedics and other care providers in Toronto are also taking vaccines to homebound seniors.