Residents of the City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland County, and Haliburton County can now add their names to a standby list for possible COVID-19 vaccine doses that may be available at the end of the day at one of the immunization clinics run by the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit.
“We know some of our residents are still looking to receive their first or second dose of vaccine, and we are hoping this standby list will provide another option for those individuals,” says medical officer of health Dr. Natalie Bocking in a media release. “There could be leftover doses for a variety of reasons. Our goal is to ensure that vaccine gets into someone’s arm rather than be wasted.”
After completing an online form to provide their name and phone number to the health unit for a clinic location, residents may receive a call to come to the clinic at the end of the day if there are vaccine doses remaining.
The health unit stresses that the standby list is not a booking tool. Residents who register for the standby list for a clinic location will only be called if there are extra doses available at the end of the clinic.
“As these end-of-clinic doses are not guaranteed, we still encourage our residents to continue to try to book an appointment through the provincial booking system, a local pharmacy, or through their local family health teams or community health teams,” Dr. Bocking says.
The standby list is open to any resident of Haliburton County, Northumberland County, or the City of Kawartha Lakes who wishes to receive their first or second dose of vaccine. Residents must be able to attend the specified clinic location within 25 to 30 minutes of receiving a call.
To register for the standby list, visit hkpr.on.ca/2021/06/27/covid-190-vaccine-standby-list/ and click on the links as the bottom of the page for a nearby clinic location.
The links on the health unit’s website will be active daily between 8 a.m. and noon, but may close close before noon if the standby list is full.
Residents should register for only one clinic each day, and will need to register each day the clinics are available if the standby list is full. Lists will be cleared daily to ensure they are current.
The clinics offer one of Health Canada’s approved mRNA vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna). These vaccines are interchangeable, and the health unit not identify in advance what vaccine will be offered at a clinic.
