Hamilton will close mass vaccination clinics in August; residents have asked to change their appointment

Residents who have Covid vaccine next month’s appointments may have to be rescheduled as Hamilton announced his three mass vaccination clinics will close in August.

From August 3, Hamilton will begin “a prudent and measured liquidation” of its principal immunization sites in favor of several small clinics across town, a statement said.

The Hamilton Health Sciences clinic on Wellington Street North will be the first to close on August 3, while the 5th clinic at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s West will follow on August 17. FirstOntario Center The clinic will close on August 29.

Anyone with an appointment made after the above dates should reprogram or get shot ground level 28 days after their first dose, the city said.

Information on rescheduling and access to appointments is available on The Spectator’s Faq. Public health will also send emails and texts instructions to those with second dose appointments booked after the above dates. Vaccine hotline staff will contact people by phone.

Based on the Spectator’s recordings of vaccine doses at each clinic, the three mass clinics combined to administer more than 5,000 per day in late June and early July – peaking on the weekend of June 25-27, when 21,100 doses were given over three days.

There was one slump in the past few days, with just 2,200 doses reported by public health at the three clinics on Tuesday.

“There are still many members of the community who have not yet received their first dose, and … protection is not evenly distributed across the community ”, the release notes.

City says it will focus on supply vaccines through pharmacy, ephemeral clinics, and the two existing primary care clinics at the David Braley Health Sciences Center and Winter berry Family medicine. Family physicians are also expected to communicate with their patients who have not yet been vaccinated.

“We remain attached to increase vaccination coverage in our community using new channels of awareness and vaccination sites“Dr. Elizabeth Richardson said in the statement. It is not known how many new clinics will be added or or they will be in town.

“Our work is far from over,” said the medical officer of health. “With only six weeks before September and back to school, our vaccination efforts remain as crucial as ever.