As the number of people remaining to be vaccinated becomes smaller and the community’s management of COVID-19 continues to evolve, Hamilton’s COVID-19 vaccine program continues to adapt and shift to ensure protection is equally distributed across populations and the community. With vaccine coverage estimates and other local data, long(er)-term planning is underway with the Hamilton Healthcare Partners and other partner organizations, including local school boards, to support both the Last Mile Strategy, and the eventual transition of the COVID-19 Vaccination Program to a sustainable program model.
Hamilton Public Health Services’ School-based COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics
As a community, we are collectively concerned about the impact COVID-19, remote learning and public health restrictions are having on the mental and emotional well-being of children and youth. To help balance the risks of the rapidly spreading Omicron variant and the risks to the mental, emotional and physical health of children, youth and their learning it’s critical that community members continue to follow the well-established public health measures and take the necessary steps to get fully vaccinated.
Hamilton Public Health Services, along with the local school boards, will be bringing the COVID-19 vaccine to even more local residents through mobile clinics at area elementary and secondary schools. These clinics will be available to HWCDSB and HWDSB students, families and staff in each school community, plus eligible students from neighbouring schools. Children ages 5 to 11 years of age who are eligible to receive a first or second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can walk-in to any of the clinics below. Additional school-based clinics will continue to be added and details will be made available to families.
School-based Vaccination ClinicsFriday, Jan 28, 2022, 9 am to 3 p.m. St. Ann Catholic Elementary School 15 St. Ann Street, Hamilton, ON L8L 0B8
Available to the following schools:
St. Ann (Hamilton) Catholic Elementary School
Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Elementary School
St. Patrick Catholic Elementary School
St. Lawrence Catholic Elementary SchoolFriday, Jan 28, 2022, 9 am to 3 p.m.
Queen Victoria Elementary School
166 Forest Ave, Hamilton, ON L8N 0A6
Available to the following schools:
Queen Victoria Elementary School
Central Public School
Dr. J.E. Davey Elementary School
Ryerson Elementary School
Bennetto Elementary School
Cathy Wever Elementary School
Hess Street Public School
Hamilton Public Health Services’ top priority continues to be this opportunistic and hyper-localized strategy to increase the administration of first, second, third doses of COVID-19 vaccines. This strategy will ensure protection against COVID-19 is equally distributed across populations, the community, and neighbourhoods and school communities with lower vaccine coverage rates. Furthermore, residents will benefit from access to tailored information and vaccines that are accessible at convenient locations and times.
Learn about eligibility, available locations, hours of operation and how to book at www.hamilton.ca/GetYourVaccine. This includes a wide variety of clinic options, such as large fixed-site, primary care led, school-based, neighbourhood pharmacy, community partner led, the Ministry of Health led GO-VAXX, and mobile vaccination clinics in Hamilton, accessible to students, families, school staff and the broader community.
COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution in Hamilton among schools
In alignment with the City of Hamilton’s commitment to transparency, and sharing relevant and timely data with the community, effective today, Hamilton Public Health Services is publishing COVID-19 vaccination rate estimates of students ages five to 11 on the City’s COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution dashboard’s “Vaccination in Hamilton Schools” table.
With lower vaccine coverage rates across the five to 11 population at this time, it is difficult to draw conclusions between COVID-19 vaccine uptake and geography within Hamilton. Whereas, the school vaccination coverage estimates for the 12 to 17 population initially published on November 15, 2021, correlated with a community’s socioeconomic status and has been consistent with what is seen in Hamilton’s general population. It’s important to note, COVID-19 vaccination rates similar to vaccine coverage rates of required vaccines under the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA)—are not reflective of school performance; rather, is rooted in the social determinants of health which differ across school communities.
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