Belated Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The scowl on my face is for my beloved staff who kept playing tricks all day yesterday. It's amazing what laughter does to decrease the incredible stress in our work environment. Today that remarkable staff has stepped up again to create an AstraZeneca Vaccine Clinic. Our hope is that once this pilot project of offering these vaccines in your doctor's office is over, we will receive a constant supply that we can offer to you. And what a special day this day will be. Only good news today. The Guelph Wellington Public Health Unit has had very few new cases with under 25/100,000, only 5 in Guelph yesterday. We are wearing masks everywhere and keeping our distance. The University of Guelph in partnership with the Guelph Family Health Team opened their Mass Vaccination clinic this wee. All three of Guelph's mass vaccination clinics are up and running. The goal is 10,000 vaccines a week depending on supply. We have now vaccinated 30,000 people in our region! Thank you WDG Public Health, University of Guelph, Guelph Family Health Team and Linamar. And now, thank you to the family doctor's who stepped up to create clinic's in their offices. This was done on top of all the other work we do. Be so proud. Millions of vaccines are arriving the last week of March and Toronto will have the capacity to immunize thousands a day. Keep this beautiful number in your head: 3,442,428 And keep track of this number through this link: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-administration/ That's the number of vaccines that have been given in Canada so far. In the next couple of weeks, you will watch that number double, then double again and again. Focus on it, instead of the negative news and the confusing politics. Follow the guidelines, wear a mask. The variants will not affect us if we keep community transmission low and avoid getting infected. It's only months away before enough of us will be immunized to get way ahead of COVID-19. Both the French President and the British Prime Minister have asked to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. And the European Union's Health Agency has stated that this vaccine does not increase the risk of clots. Health Canada, the FDA and The World Health Organization have all reviewed the research and they all agree. Get whatever vaccine is offered to you. And follow that link. Focus on the tremendous work we are accomplishing together as a nation and as a world. Anne-Marie Please share. For non-Facebook users, you can find this post here: https://braceletofhope.blogspot.com/ And if you'd like to help Bracelet of Hope work towards making sure that Lesotho has access to these vaccines, donate here: https://www.braceletofhope.ca/ways-to-