Despite the ongoing outbreak, residents at Fairfield Park will have a chance to get the COVID-19 vaccine sooner or later.
CEO of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Lori Marshall says the vaccination team moved quickly to give most long term care residents their first shot, and she’s hoping to get more doses by the end of February.
“It is a supply issue nationally, we hope that it’s coming later this month,” Marshall says. “The province has not moved on their goal to make sure that everyone in that phase one, the most at risk, all of the health care workers, all of those folks who are caregivers in long term care, that everybody is done by the end of March.”
Marshall says as an administrator, she will be the last to be vaccinated at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.
Following the arrival of Chatham-Kent’s second shipment last Friday, the vaccination team spread out across the municipality, vaccinating LTC residents at the Oaks Inn in Wallaceburg, as well as facilities in Blenheim, Chatham, Ridgetown, and Tilbury, but not Wallaceburg’s Fairfield Park quiet yet.
“While they’re in outbreak we wouldn’t go in there to administer vaccine, but rest assured their vaccines are in safe keeping,” Marshall says. “There have been some put aside so the moment they are out of outbreak, the teams will be able to go in.”
Marshall says there have been some heartwarming moments during the vaccination process, including a round of applause for the team when they arrived at one long term care facility over the weekend.
