A plea to the American government to send more COVID-19 vaccines to Canada.
During a virtual meeting with three other Premiers, Doug Ford revealed it’s his understanding there are roughly 20,000,000 AstraZeneca doses sitting somewhere in a warehouse in the United States.
“If the Americans ever want to help us this is the time, ship ’em up here,” said the premier adding, “As I’ve said many times I’ll hop in my pick-up truck and drive down there, and I’m sure the other premiers will hop in the back …and we’ll go down there together to pick them up.”
In addition to more vaccines from the United States, Ontario’s premier wants Health Canada to lower the age for vaccinations to 50 years old.
At the moment the lowest age to get immunized in Ontario is 55 for the AstraZeneca vaccine which is being distributed through 3,200 pharmacies in the province including four here in Thunder Bay.
Ford believes if all those locations were operating at ‘full steam’ every Ontarian would be vaccinated in less than a month.
