COVID-19 vaccination

Public Health Sudbury & Districts provides alternatives within the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts that can assist you get your COVID-19 vaccine. If you don’t see a clinic provided in your space this week, verify again subsequent week for extra. See all Public Health clinic alternatives at phsd.ca/COVID-19/vaccine-clinics. Additional alternatives to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine may additionally be out there via choose main care suppliers and at taking part pharmacies. Visit covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations for pharmacy areas that provide the COVID-19 vaccine.

Public Health recommends that you just obtain all COVID-19 vaccines for which you’re eligible—together with one fall booster—to construct long-term safety towards COVID-19. Staying updated means you could have accomplished the preliminary dose(s) of a COVID-19 vaccine. For these 5 years of age and older, it additionally means having acquired a COVID-19 vaccine inside the final 6 months.

Influenza vaccination

The influenza vaccine is available at many areas all through the neighborhood together with native pharmacies and well being care suppliers’ workplaces. In addition, we provide the influenza vaccine at a few of our workplaces every week. To discover out which Public Health workplaces provide the vaccine and to ebook an appointment, please name 705.522.9200 (toll-free: 1.866.522.9200), Monday to Friday, throughout regular enterprise hours, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Vaccination alternatives for the week of December 12

At appointment solely clinics for these underneath 5 years of age, eligible dad and mom and caregivers might request their COVID-19 vaccination on the time of their little one’s appointment. Please converse with clinic workers for extra info.

More alternatives could also be added all through the week. For common updates, observe us on social media @PublicHealthSD (Facebook, Twitter). Visit us on-line for up-to-date clinic particulars, together with the clinic occasions and areas, vaccine kind or routine immunization that’s deliberate at phsd.ca/COVID-19/vaccine-clinics.

Monday, December 12

Appointment solely clinics

• Public Health Sudbury & Districts, essential workplace, Sudbury
  • First and second doses for these 6 months to underneath 5.

Appointment and walk-in clinics

• Southridge Mall, Sudbury
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.

Tuesday, December 13

Appointment solely clinics

• Public Health Sudbury & Districts, Manitoulin Island workplace, Mindemoya
  • First and second doses for these 6 months to underneath 5.
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.

Appointment and walk-in clinics

• Centennial Community Centre and Arena, Hanmer
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.
• NEMI Recreation Centre, Little Current
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.

Wednesday, December 14

Appointment solely clinics

• Public Health Sudbury & Districts, Chapleau workplace, Chapleau
  • First and second doses for these 6 months to underneath 5.
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.

Appointment and walk-in clinics

• Garson Community Centre and Arena, Garson
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.
• Espanola Recreation Complex, Espanola
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.

Thursday, December 15

Appointment solely clinics

• Public Health Sudbury & Districts, Chapleau workplace, Chapleau
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 12 and older.

Appointment and walk-in clinics

• Edgar Leclair Community Centre and Arena, Azilda
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.
• Markstay Pentecostal Church, Markstay
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.

Friday, December 16

Appointment solely clinics

• Public Health Sudbury & Districts, essential workplace, Sudbury
  • First and second doses for these 6 months to underneath 5.

Appointment and walk-in clinics

• Southridge Mall, Sudbury
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.

Saturday, December 17

Appointment and walk-in clinics

• Chelmsford Community Centre and Arena, Chelmsford
  • First, second, and booster doses for these 5 and older.

Book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment

To ebook on-line, go to covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine or name 705.522.9200 (toll-free 1.866.522.9200), between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday. For an inventory of scheduled clinics, go to phsd.ca/COVID-19/vaccine-clinics.

Additional alternatives may additionally be out there via choose main care suppliers or at taking part pharmacies. Visit covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations for pharmacy areas that provide the COVID-19 vaccine.

Clinic companies

Sensory-friendly service (COVID-19)

Sensory-friendly companies could also be out there, as wanted.

Vaccine-to-vehicle service (COVID-19)

Vaccine-to-vehicle is a service out there at choose mass immunization clinics for people who’re unable to obtain their vaccine inside a clinic setting for causes corresponding to sensory sensitivities, decreased mobility, or different well being considerations. An immunizer will come outdoors to the car parking zone to supply the vaccine to people of their automobile. Please be aware that in excessive climate or excessive chilly that your appointment could also be rebooked to make sure everybody’s security.

Appointments for sensory-friendly or vaccine-to-vehicle companies can solely be booked by telephone at 705.522.9200 (toll-free 1.866.522.9200). The name centre is open Monday to Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. and is closed on statutory holidays. Booking on-line just isn’t out there.

Questions about vaccination

Learn in regards to the Health Canada approved COVID-19 vaccines (Health Canada).

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines

All Public Health clinics provide mRNA vaccine manufacturers —both Moderna Spikevax or Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty), for first, second, and booster doses to eligible people. Public Health clinics have each the unique monovalent mRNA vaccines in addition to bivalent mRNA vaccines. The monovalent vaccines are used for the first sequence for all people 6 months and older, and for booster doses for these aged 5 to 11. The bivalent mRNA vaccines embrace two strains of the COVID-19 virus: the unique COVID-19 pressure and the Omicron variant pressure. The bivalent mRNA vaccines are anticipated to supply improved safety towards the circulating Omicron variants in comparison with the unique mRNA vaccines. The bivalent vaccines are used for booster doses to eligible people aged 12 years and older. We encourage you to ask our immunizers for extra info that can assist you make an knowledgeable determination and really feel comfy about getting your vaccine.

For vaccine clinics for youngsters underneath 5 years of age, Public Health at the moment provides the Moderna Spikevax and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. It is necessary to notice that for youngsters underneath 5 years of age, the Moderna Spikevax vaccine will observe a two-dose sequence whereas Pfizer-BioNTech will observe a three-dose sequence.

Non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines

Currently, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty or Moderna Spikevax) are the popular COVID-19 vaccine choices for the first sequence and booster doses administered in any respect Public Health clinics. However, Public Health can order a restricted provide of the Novavax (Nuvaxovid) non-mRNA vaccine, which can be utilized for a main sequence or booster dose based mostly on eligibility.

Appointments will be booked for a non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine by calling 705.522.9200 (toll-free 1.866.522.9200) and offering a consultant together with your title and make contact with info. A consultant will name you again to schedule an appointment as soon as sufficient people have requested to obtain a non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

Eligibility

COVID-19 vaccines

In Ontario, you’re thought of updated together with your COVID-19 vaccines when you could have accomplished the preliminary dose(s) of a COVID-19 vaccine and have acquired a COVID-19 vaccine inside the final 6 months (if eligible). A bivalent booster dose is strongly really useful for choose high-risk teams at an interval of three months from their final dose. Visit covid-19-vaccine-eligibility for info on when try to be vaccinated based mostly on the kind of vaccine you need to obtain, your age, your well being standing, and if you happen to just lately had a COVID-19 an infection.

Preparing for a vaccination appointment

All vaccination clinics have COVID-safety measures in place. You should not attend a clinic in case you have any signs of COVID-19 or if you’re in isolation as a consequence of a COVID-19 publicity.

• Bring your well being card. If you would not have a well being card or your well being card is expired, deliver one other type of government-issued photograph identification corresponding to a driver’s license, passport, Status card, or beginning certificates.
• Eat and drink one thing earlier than you arrive at your appointment to forestall feeling faint or dizzy whereas being vaccinated.
• Do not present up till 5 minutes earlier than your scheduled appointment.
• When attainable, please restrict the variety of assist individuals attending a vaccination clinic to at least one particular person.
• Dress for the climate, you’ll have to attend in line if you happen to plan on attending a walk-in clinic.
• Wear a prime that enables for simple entry to the higher arm corresponding to a loose-fitting prime or a T-shirt.
• Wear a medical masks that covers your nostril, mouth, and chin. If you would not have a medical masks, pediatric and grownup medical masks shall be out there on the entrance to the clinic.

For extra info or in case you have questions, please discuss to trusted sources corresponding to Public Health immunizers, well being care suppliers, and pharmacists, go to phsd.ca/COVID-19 or name Public Health Sudbury & Districts at 705.522.9200 (toll-free 1.866.522.9200).