New Hockey Hub vaccination clinic at Bingemans Conference Centre opens Thursday
Waterloo Region – Today, Bruce Power and the Region of Waterloo are getting help from local firefighters to set up a new Hockey Hub vaccination clinic model at Bingemans in Kitchener. By Thursday, the clinic will be operational and administering first and second doses of the Moderna vaccine to residents of Waterloo Region who are 18 years of age and older.
“We’re looking forward to getting this Hockey Hub vaccination clinic model up and running this week,” said Shirley Hilton, Deputy Chief of Waterloo Region Police Service and head of the Waterloo Region Vaccine Distribution Task Force. “Alongside our other vaccination clinics, this innovative vaccination clinic model is going to help us significantly ramp up the administration of doses this month.”
Appointments are now available for Thursday and Friday at Bingemans Conference Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener. Walk-ins will be welcome for first doses. Residents can book an appointment for a first or second dose of the vaccine on the Region of Waterloo website: Book a vaccine.
Everyone who received an mRNA vaccine (Moderna or Pfizer) for their first dose is now eligible for second dose at a shortened interval (28 days). These two mRNA vaccines are interchangeable. Residents are encouraged to get whichever mRNA vaccine is first available to them. The brand is unimportant. What is important is not delaying protection from the COVID-19 virus and the highly contagious Delta variant.
The vaccination clinic at Bingemans Conference Centre will be administering the Moderna vaccine on Thursday and Friday for anyone 18 years of age and older. For the first two days, staff will trial the new Hockey Hub vaccination clinic model using only one vaccine type.
Members of the public who have an appointment for a second dose later in August or September are encouraged to rebook their second-dose appointment for an earlier date: Rebook a second dose appointment.
In addition to public vaccination clinics, residents can also get their vaccine at one of 123 pharmacies in the region as well as many family practices.
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