The province is getting ready to start vaccinating people in the community.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Doctor Robert Strang says they are launching their first prototype clinic, for people over 80, at the IWK in Halifax on Feb. 22.
Doctor Strang says it is important to test every part of community vaccine rollout.
“Our mantra is ‘we have to try things out and get good before we can go fast,’ and we want to be in a place, that when we get a robust vaccine supply, that we can go fast right away,” he says. “Like anything, the first time you do it you’re not going to be at your maximum efficiency, so everything we do, we want to do it in a small scale first, learn from it.”
Doctor Strang says the small-scale clinic will act as a testing ground.
He says lessons learned there will help them build nine more 80-plus community clinics in Antigonish, Yarmouth, Bridgewater, CBRM, Halifax, Truro, Kentville, and Amherst in March.
“It’s everything from ‘how smoothly does our registration process go?’, we need to identify people through MSI based on their date of birth, how do we get them an invitation,” he says. “To all the processes, how do we get people, especially elderly people, to the clinic?”
One new case of COVID-19 Wednesday, travel related in Central Zone, 11 active infections remaining in the province.
