Auditor General says Ont. COVID vaccination campaign was uncoordinated

Ont.'s AG issued 15 value-for-money reports, including one on the province's COVID-19 vaccination program. She finds the government's rollout was uncoordinated and wasteful, pointing to a central intake system for booking appointments that took three months to develop, while offering inoculations at public health units, pharmacies and hospitals encouraged Ontarians to vaccine shop, resulting in 227,000 unfilled appointments last year. The AG also reports 9% of the vaccines Ont. received as of June were wasted, with 70% of the vials being thrown out at pharmacies. As well, she says two private-sector companies hired by the government to deliver vaccines wasted 20% and 57% of doses delivered to them. Her report shows doctors received about $170 an hour to work in a mass vaccination or mobile pop-up clinic operated by a public health unit or hospital, while nurses received between $32 and $49 an hour. RNs were paid even less.
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