Chapmans Canada makes it easier to distribute vaccines

Windsor residents can feel at ease about Vaccine rollout thanks to Chapmans ice cream.

The Windsor Essex County Health Unit received a gift from Chapmans Canada this week, an industrial sized freezer. The Government of Ontario has developed a three phase vaccine distribution plan that sets the order and priorities for distribution for local public health units to follow. The groups selected in each phase are based on an ethical framework established by the province. The Government of Ontario has committed to distributing COVID-19 vaccines to priority populations in the highest risk areas as shipments are received from federal government suppliers.

The freezer will be used to store the COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine according to WECHU. In order to be effective, the vaccines will have to be stored at minus seventy degrees Celsius, and it will be used as part of the COVID-19 vaccination distribution plan. Locally there were 24,897 residents who have gotten their vaccines this accounts for 1,895 who have received their first dose and 11,501 who have received both doses. For more information on the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Plan, and to view the current priority for vaccination please visit the Windsor Essex County Health Unit’s website.