High Risk Health Care Workers Reminder to Register for Shortened Second Dose Interval
The province has added high-risk health care workers, dialysis patients, and all First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals to the list of those eligible to book their appointment to receive a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine earlier than the extended four-month interval. HPEPH is working diligently to balance the delivery of first dose vaccines to eligible groups while making every effort to offer shortened interval second doses to those who are eligible.
Requesting a Shortened Second Dose
Eligible High Risk Health care workers that received their first dose through public health community immunization clinics are reminder to complete HPEPH’s High Risk Health Care Worker Second Dose Registration Form as soon as possible. HPEPH is planning a "catch up clinic" to ensure that eligible high risk health care workers have access to a second dose as soon as possible. To receive an invitation, complete this form. Please do not cancel your original second dose appointment until you have been able to book a new one at a shortened interval.
High risk health care workers that are eligible for a shortened second dose interval include:
- All hospital and acute care staff in frontline roles with COVID-19 patients and/or with a high-risk of exposure to COVID-19, including nurses and personal support workers and those performing aerosol-generating procedures:
- Critical Care Units
- Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Departments
- COVID-19 Medical Units
- Code Blue Teams, rapid response teams
- General internal medicine and other specialists involved in the direct care of COVID-19 positive patients
- All patient-facing health care workers involved in the COVID-19 response:
- COVID-19 Specimen Collection Centers (e.g., Assessment centers, community COVID-19 testing locations)
- Teams supporting outbreak response (e.g., IPAC teams supporting outbreak management, inspectors in the patient environment, redeployed health care workers supporting outbreaks or staffing crisis in congregate living settings)
- COVID-19 vaccine clinics and mobile immunization teams
- Mobile Testing Teams
- COVID-19 Isolation Centers
- COVID-19 Laboratory Services
- Current members of Ontario’s Emergency Medical Assistance Team (EMAT) who may be deployed at any time to support an emergency response
- Medical First Responders
- ORNGE
- Paramedics
- Firefighters providing medical first response as part of their regular duties
- Police and special constables providing medical first response as part of their regular duties
- Community health care workers serving specialized populations including:
- Needle exchange/syringe programs and supervised consumption and treatment services
- Indigenous health care service providers including but not limited to:
- Aboriginal Health Access Centers, Indigenous Community Health Centers,
- Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Teams, and Indigenous Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics
- Long-term care home and retirement-home health care workers, including nurses and personal support workers and Essential Caregivers
- Individuals working in Community Health Centers serving disproportionally affected communities and/or communities experiencing highest burden of health, social and economic impacts from COVID-19
- Critical health care workers in remote and hard to access communities, e.g., sole practitioner
- Home and community care health care workers, including nurses and personal support workers caring for recipients of chronic homecare and seniors in congregate living facilities or providing hands-on care to COVID-19 patients in the community
All health care workers who do not yet have a first dose COVID-19 vaccination appointment are encouraged to schedule their first dose as soon as possible at ontario.ca/bookvaccine or by phone at 1-833-943-3900.
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