Ford to provide update on Ontario's distribution of COVID-19 vaccine

Premier Doug Ford is set to provide an update on the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday afternoon.

Ford will be joined by Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones and General Rick Hillier (retired), Chair of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force.

On Friday, the members of the task force were announced, which include:

• Dr. Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s Chief Coroner and Coordinator of Provincial Outbreak Response
• Dr. Homer Tien, trauma surgeon and President and CEO, Ornge
• Dr. Maxwell Smith, bioethicist and assistant professor, Western University
• Dr. Isaac Bogoch, infectious diseases consultant and internist, Toronto General Hospital
• Ontario Regional Chief RoseAnne Archibald of Taykwa Tagamou Nation
• Dr. Regis Vaillancourt, Director of Pharmacy and Integrated Pain Services, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
• Linda Hasenfratz, CEO, Linamar Corporation
• Angela Mondou, President and CEO, TECHNATION
• Mark Saunders, former Toronto Police Chief

According to the province, the task force will work in partnership with several ministries to provide the government with expertise in operations and logistics, federal-provincial and Indigenous relations, health and clinical domains, behavioural science, public health and immunization, ethics, and information technology and data.

Beginning immediately, the task force will focus on several key areas, specifically delivery, logistics and administration, clinical guidance as well as public education and outreach.