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Nursing-home residents in Ontario may have to wait for a COVID-19 vaccine

Oct 29, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Nursing-home residents in Ontario are at risk of missing out on the first because of “stability” concerns in transporting the Pfizer vaccine once it arrives, provincial officials say.

The caution came as Premier revealed who is first in line for injections and Ontario set its third record high for new cases in as many days with 1,925 more people testing positive for the virus.

As expected, the first phase of shots will go to residents, staff and essential caregivers at nursing homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings, health-care workers such as hospital employees, Indigenous communities and adults receiving home health care for chronic conditions.

The second phase for the rest of the population is not expected to begin until April, with priorities for who will get injections to be set later, and will take six to nine months.

“People are going to have to be patient that their turn will come,” Rick Hillier, the retired general heading Ontario’s vaccine task force, said Monday.

“We’re still very far, very far, from having the millions of vaccinations we need.”

With it likely that small amounts of vaccine will arrive in the initial stages of distribution — perhaps next week — the first shots will be aimed at “hot zones” with the highest infection rates like the GTA, said Rick Hillier.

He expects about 85,000 doses, enough for 42,500 people because of the two-stage injection protocol, in the first shipment.

The plan is to do injections at central sites, requiring people to travel to them.

Aside from requiring ultracold storage, Pfizer has advised the province it’s important to minimize jostling of its vaccine to maintain its effectiveness.

“Too much movement around can…cause a deterioration,” said Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer.

That’s why nursing-home residents may have to wait a few weeks for the next and more stable vaccine from Moderna. It all depends on final guidance from Pfizer, said Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott.

“Obviously, many of the residents in those long-term-care homes or many of the retirement homes, in fact, could not come out and go to a vaccination site,” Hillier said.

But he told reporters that vaccinating staff and essential caregivers going to those facilities will “dramatically” decrease the risk to residents waiting for shots.

“We know the disease comes in from the outside,” said Donna Duncan of the Ontario Long-Term Care Association, estimating 624,000 doses will be needed for nursing home staff, residents and caregivers.

The virus has killed at least 2,305 nursing home residents and eight staff, including 12 residents who died in the last day, accounting for 61 per cent of Ontario’s fatalities from the pandemic. There are outbreaks in 113 nursing homes.

Ontario’s all-time high of 1,925 new daily marked the start of the third week in lockdown for Toronto and Peel.

Associate medical officer Dr. Barbara Yaffe said more time is needed to assess the “full impact” of the restrictions and noted computer modelling several weeks ago forecast Ontario could hit 6,000 cases daily if no measures had been imposed.

“It would have been a lot worse,” she added.

Deputy NDP Leader Sara Singh said the repeated records in new cases show the government has been making “empty claims” the pandemic is under control.

The new infections reported Monday boost the seven-day moving average of infections to an all-time high of 1,820.

That’s up 16 per cent in the last seven days, an increase from 10 per cent the previous week.

A total of 5,703 Ontarians have tested positive for COVID-19 since Friday and there have been 61 deaths, including 26 in the latest Ministry of Health report.

Hospitalizations are up 17 per cent in the last week to 725 people, with the latest critical-care report showing 223 people in intensive care, an increase of 22 in one day.

That means the province will soon top the record of 283 COVID-19 patients in ICU at the peak of the first wave last spring, said Anthony Dale, president of the Ontario Hospital Association.

“It’s really just a matter of time before we reach and move beyond that threshold,” he added. “Ontario is facing a brutal winter. We’ve got to turn this around.”

Health officials have warned non-emergency surgeries begin to get cancelled once ICUs hit 150 COVID-19 patients and become virtually impossible at 350.

Rob Ferguson is a Toronto-based reporter covering Ontario politics for the Star. Follow him on Twitter:

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‘It’s like, wow, it’s real now’: Orillia swim coach on recreation facility

Aug 25, 2021 , , , , by shlf

When the city opened its long-awaited recreation centre on the morning of Oct. 26, it wasn’t the splashy event that one would have expected after years of anticipation.

With a pandemic underway and strict safety protocols in place, the municipality is gradually phasing in its use to protect visitors and staff from the spread of COVID-19.

The typical splash of an opening-day celebration was instead replaced by the sound of Orillia Channel Cats Swim Club members slicing through the waters of the new eight-lane pool.

“It’s pretty amazing,” head coach Meredith Thompson-Edwards told Simcoe.com. “It’s like, wow, it’s real now.”

Just as the city is phasing in use of the building, the Orillia Channel Cats are likewise taking a go-slow approach.

The club is limiting the number of members in the pool at one time and dividing the pool into four, double-sized lanes to allow for greater distance between swimmers.

“With the Y closing, we haven’t been able to train at all,” Thompson-Edwards said. “We have done some dry land (training) to keep them as active as they can, but to actually dive in, they were pretty excited.”

For the time being, the building at 255 West St. S. will be open to the public for time slots at the fitness centre, pre-registered drop-in aquatics, fitness and sports programming, registered programs, and user groups.

The gradual approach to opening includes modified schedules to allow for monitoring of building capacity, proper cleaning protocols and contact tracing.

All participants must arrive dressed and ready for their program of choice, as change rooms are not currently available.

Masks must be worn in common areas and in designated programs.

The facility’s opening represents “a pivotal point” for the community, Mayor Steve Clarke said.

“Although the opening is very different than we had imagined, and there will be no grand opening celebration – yet – this facility is something the entire city can be extremely proud of,” Clarke added.

Memberships, known as ‘Fun Passes’ can be purchased through the city’s online portal, , which also serves as the registration point for drop-in programming.

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Barrie man charged in fatal hit-and-run in Springwater

Aug 10, 2021 , , , , by shlf

A 22-year-old Barrie man is charged after a woman was struck and killed last month by a vehicle on Bayfield Street North in Springwater Township.

Huronia West OPP charged Kraig Roberston on Oct. 6 with failing to stop at an accident causing death.

Police identified the alleged vehicle and the driver a few days after the collision.

Police say a woman who was standing on the side of the highway with her dog waving at passing vehicles was struck and killed at about 10:48 p.m. Sept. 15.

Police have not released the woman’s name or her age.

Initially, Ontario’s police watchdog began an investigation because an OPP officer was on the scene quickly and was forced to swerve around the woman’s body. The Special Investigations Unit dropped the investigation a day later.

An off-duty Barrie police officer was driving behind the unmarked OPP cruiser and also pulled over. 

The officers performed CPR on the woman, but were unsuccessful.

The accused appeared in the Ontario Court of Justice in Barrie for a bail hearing Oct. 6.

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Barrie man jailed for manslaughter after supplying friend with deadly opioid

Jul 19, 2021 , , , , by shlf

A 31-year-old Barrie man who unknowingly gave a friend a deadly synthetic opioid instead of cocaine was sentenced to 18 months in jail for manslaughter.

Justice Jonathan Bliss released his reasons for the sentence Oct. 30, saying while Robert Rodgers was remorseful for the overdose death of Darci Beers on Aug. 18, 2017, he failed to help her when she needed it most.

Bliss said there’s no doubt Rodgers believed the white powdery substance he shared with Beers and her neighbour was cocaine. 

When Beers ingested a substance she believed was cocaine but was actually U-47700, known as “Pinky” on the street, it had a fatal effect.

While Beers died in her apartment, Rodgers and the neighbour were both rendered unconscious, the sentencing report says.

When the neighbour awoke, he tried to perform CPR on Beers, who was on the kitchen floor.

The neighbour yelled at Rodgers to call 911, but instead he called his mother to come pick him up, Bliss wrote. Other neighbours came to help, speaking with dispatchers on the phone until paramedics arrived.

“All the while Mr. Rodgers did nothing. Mr. Rodgers was certainly emotional and remorseful during his interview with police, but when he needed to act, when he needed to demonstrate concern and empathy for someone other than himself, for something he was responsible for, he failed,” Bliss said.

Beers was the mother of a three-year-old boy.

Rodgers pleaded guilty after being charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death in November 2017.

Rodgers told police he only knew his drug dealer as “Josh” and provided officers with the dealer’s phone number. However, police were unable to track the dealer down.

Bliss said despite Rodgers believing he was providing cocaine, he should have been wary of possible opioid substitutes.

Rodgers did not test the drug when he purchased it, and ended up suffering a small stroke when he consumed it, the court heard.

“It could not have been lost on him that cocaine is still a dangerous drug that alone could have been fatal, and, even in 2017, was being adulterated with other drugs with fatal consequences.” 

Rodgers was sentenced last February.