PRHC Receives Very First Shipment Of 5,850 Doses Of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) has announced they have received their first shipment of 5,850 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

The hospital’s COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic will ramp up this week, administering the vaccine to long-term care home employees and essential caregivers, community paramedics and highest-risk hospital healthcare workers—all of whom have been designated as immediate-priority populations by the Province of Ontario.

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Between Wednesday, February 24th and Sunday, February 28th, we expect to be able to offer up to 2,500 vaccination appointments for these populations.

“Healthcare workers and first responders in our community have shown, and continue to show, an incredible amount of resilience and teamwork throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are thrilled to have this vaccine available for them,” says Dr. Lynn Mikula, EVP, Chief of Staff and Chief Medical Executive at PRHC.

"It's exciting to see our local vaccination rollout program gain traction with increasing supply so we can immunize high-priority groups," says Dr. Rosana Salvaterra, Medical Officer of Health. "This will help us start to build a ring of protection around our most vulnerable residents – a critical goal as variants of concern arrive in our community."

Staffed by hospital RNs and RPNs as well as physicians from PRHC and the Peterborough community, once up and running at full capacity, PRHC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic will offer up to 700 vaccination appointments daily, seven (7) days a week, based on ongoing supply and demand.

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