May 31, 2021 - Toronto Star

Toronto Star - Staff at Ontario long-term-care homes will need to get the COVID vaccine, or get educated about it, barring a medical exemption

By: May Warren

“This is kind of the step before actually mandating vaccination” said Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research. As well, homes will now be asking staff for their personal medical information on whether they got the COVID vaccine.

“It might actually create more resistance in some people as opposed to figuring out what is the barrier,” he said, adding it’s also important to make it more convenient for staff to get vaccines and “easy for them to do the right thing.”