COVID-19: Spring vaccination campaign shifting focus to most at-risk, MLHU says
COVID-19 outcomes will be the focus of the local vaccination effort through the spring, officials with the Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) say.It comes after Dr.
Kieran Moore, the province’s chief medical officer of health, said Thursday that those considered high-risk, like residents 65 and older and residents who are pregnant, should get a booster dose this spring if it’s been six months since their last dose or COVID-19 infection.“This is a bit of a shift in terms of the booster campaigns.
Previously, everybody would have been eligible, but the evidence is still emerging as to whether or not everybody needs a booster dose right now,” said Dr.
Alex Summers, medical officer of health for London and Middlesex.High-risk residents also include those living in senior care facilities, those 18 and older who are immunocompromised, and those who are First Nations, Inuit or Metis who are 55 or older, along with their non-Indigenous household members of the same age.
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