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(February 7, 2021)<\/p>\n

By: Donald Macdonald, Sudbury Star<\/p>\n

A doctor who works in Ontario long-term care homes accuses those charged with distributing the COVID-19 vaccine of \u201cbungling\u201d the process so badly that many of the vulnerable seniors who need it most won\u2019t get their first dose until this week.<\/p>\n

Amit Arya, a palliative care doctor who works in GTA, said the date to finish vaccinating seniors in LTC and retirement homes with their first dose only has been pushed back, yet again, to Feb. 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been many deadly glitches along the way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the date to give seniors their first dose has been moved around quite a bit, making the whole process appear \u201cvery chaotic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arya blames a failure in planning by the COVID-19 vaccination distribution task force from the get-go.<\/p>\n

He said the government\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force should have but didn\u2019t allocate the bulk of vaccines in the beginning to those in seniors homes, where the majority of deaths have occurred.<\/p>\n

Only a small minority of vaccines went to them, he said, while others went to health workers, hospitals and in some cases even people who are not seeing patients like administrators and researchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s absolutely absurd,\u201d Arya said.<\/p>\n

He said notwithstanding the procurement problem, the province had enough doses to vaccinate every long-term resident by the third week of December.<\/p>\n

They put them \u201cinto the wrong people\u2019s arms,\u201d Arya said.<\/p>\n

Natalie Mehra<\/a>, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition<\/a>, said with the deliveries made last week and those planned for next week, Ontario has enough vaccine supply to \u201cfinish all\u201d seniors in LTC and retirement homes.<\/p>\n

She cites the latest statistics for Feb. 6 that show there are still 65,309 vaccine doses in the freezer, and adds that last week and this week a total of 90,000 doses are expected from Pfizer and Moderna.<\/p>\n

She said the province really had enough vaccine to \u201cdo all LTC residents multiple times over\u201d despite the Pfizer delay.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe province has just not been able to get its act together to roll them out, she said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Mehra said the province finally vaccinated 10,000 people Friday after days of vaccinating just 3,000 or so.<\/p>\n

She said that if the province\u2019s task force isn\u2019t pressured to get their act together, then the average Ontarian will be waiting years to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n

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