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The Middlesex-London Health Unit will open its third COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Thursday.
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Jill Seara, a public health nurse, loads a syringe with the Pfiizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Caradoc Community Center in Mt.Brydges. (Mike Hensen / The London Free Press)
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The Middlesex-London Health Unit will open its third COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Thursday.
The medical health officer Dr. Chris Mackie said Monday the health unit’s clinic at the North London Optimist Community Center on Cheapside Street will start administering the two-dose Moderna vaccine starting Thursday.
Appointment bookings for the north-east London location opened on Monday, according to Mackie, and there were approximately 2,000 spaces available for high-priority health care workers and seniors aged 80 and over.
The clinic could offer another vaccine in the spring, depending on what’s on offer, he said.
The site will vaccinate about 400 people a day when it opens Thursday, Mackie said, but could do up to 2,000 vaccinations a day, just like the Agriplex Clinic in the Western Fair District.
The Caradoc Community Center Clinic in Mt. Brydges, which opened on February 18, has a capacity of approximately 550 admissions per day.
The health unit announced plans last month to also open a clinic in the Nichols Arena, but the location is unlikely to open this month, Mackie said.
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“It doesn’t look like we have enough (vaccine) supplies to open the fourth clinic,” he said.
“We currently have about twice the capacity to deliver vaccines in this community than we have vaccines in the community.”
The Nichols Clinic can also take up to 2,000 exposures per day.
Bookings for the three locations in the London area can be made at covidvaccinelm.ca or by calling 226-289-3560.
The Agriplex and Mount Brydges sites serve eligible residents in Counties of London and Middlesex, Elgin, Oxford, Huron and Perth.
Make an appointment
On-line: covidvaccinelm.ca
By phone: 226-289-3560 from 8 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. seven days a week
Eligibility to participate: People aged 80 and over (born in 1941 or earlier), indigenous adults aged 55 and over, and selected high-priority healthcare workers who receive booking instructions through their employer.
Clinic locations: Western Fair District Agriplex, 845 Florence St., or Caradoc Community Center, 565 Lions Park Dr. Brydges. The North London Optimist Community Center at 1345 Cheapside St. opens on Thursday.
