In The Schools

To support a safe return to school and to ensure more children and youth benefit from the protection offered by the vaccine, the Grey Bruce Health Unit will provide the Pfizer vaccine to those born in 2009. The province has extended eligibility to all those born in 2009, no longer requiring waiting until their twelfth birthday. The Health Unit says that the vaccine should be top of the to-do list to get ready for back-to-school in September. Vaccination remains the...

Vaccine should be top of the to-do list in getting ready for back-to-school in September, says the Grey-Bruce Health Unit. Vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent severe illness and complications from COVID-19 and its variants. All students age 12 and older are urged to get both first and second doses of the vaccine prior to returning to school in person in September.  To provide easy access to vaccines, mobile pop-up clinics will take place in high schools across...