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Friday, March 29, 2024
Letter: Make sure those most at risk get vaccine first

Dear editor:

I am writing regarding your front-page story “NOTLer gets COVID vaccine,” Jan. 14.

I think drugstores should have local waitlists categorized by risk.

Whereas I’m very happy for the young woman (who was helping care for her mother in a Hamilton nursing home) having received the COVID vaccine, it would have been more appropriate to write about a front-line worker receiving one of those precious first vaccine doses since they provide vital care to many patients at once.

In this particular case the essential care was already being provided to the patient by medical staff in that facility.

Once the front-line workers in each care facility are vaccinated, doses must be extended to the next-in-line high-risk population. This can be achieved by calling any drugstore as by this time surely they have compiled local waitlists categorized by risk. And if not, why not?

Among us there are vulnerable friends and family of generous age with severe health conditions who most definitely should have been offered the vaccine and I would have happily taken them to the facility to get that dose.

Valeria Sebella

NOTL

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