Why Toronto’s gone from hockey arenas to ‘hyper-local’ to get COVID-19 shots in arms – CBC
With a 90% vaccination rate, city’s focus shifting to a small-scale immunization effort
Feb 16, 2022
Gone are the days of administering COVID-19 vaccines to thousands of people in a single day at Toronto hockey arenas and convention centres.
With more than 90 per cent of people over the age of 12 now immunized, the city is shifting to a hyper-local approach targeting the city’s ever-shrinking unvaccinated population.
“Building-to-building, door-to-door, because that’s what’s needed,” said Shiran Isaacksz, vice president of the University Health Network and co-lead of the City of Toronto’s Community Vaccination Table.
The most vaccine doses delivered on a single day in Toronto — 63,552 — happened on June 27, according to City of Toronto data. The city says 26,771 of those doses were administered at a single event at Scotiabank Arena, where residents got their shots in a party-like atmosphere with DJs playing music and pro hockey players raffling off Maple Leafs and Raptors tickets. But these days, vaccine clinics are small, specific and sometimes are serving as few as five people.
