Vaccination Clinics
Our Covid/Flu vaccination clinics are open to the public at our Northumberland Mall location. NFHT patients can also receive many kinds of vaccinations at our associated clinics. You can book a FLU/COVID shot online, click here. Appointments will be continually added as we receive vaccine.
If you have received the updated COVID-19 vaccine since September 30, 2024, another dose is not recommended at this time.
What’s New About Flu and Covid Vaccinations?
If you have received the updated COVID-19 vaccine since September 30, 2024, another dose is not recommended at this time. And additional dose is recommended for specific people in the groups indicated below in spring 2025.
You can book online FLU/COVID vaccination appointments -We will continually open more appointments each week based on our supply of vaccine. If you book a covid shot and want a flu shot during the same appointment, you do not have to book it as well, just ask for the flu shot when you arrive.
The Ministry of Health has launched the Spring campaign for the COVID-19 vaccine. An additional dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is recommended for specific group this Spring. See below.
- Adults 65 years of age and older: NACI recommends that those 80 years and older should receive an additional dose of vaccine while those 65 to 79 years of age may receive an additional dose of vaccine.
- Adult residents of long-term care homes and other congregate living settings for
- Individuals 6 months of age and older who are moderately to severely
- immunocompromised (due to an underlying condition or treatment).
- Individuals 55 years and older who identify as First Nations, Inuit, or Melis and their
- non-Indigenous household members who are 55 years and
- Moderately to severely immunocompromised
NACI continues in 2025 to recommend that everyone ages six months and up receive one dose of covid vaccine. NACI recommends people in high risk categories receive two doses of covid vaccine during the year. High risk includes:
- children under 5 years of age, because their immune systems are developing, and their airways are small and more easily blocked
- people 65 years old and older, because their immune systems are weaker and they are more likely to have an underlying condition that increases their risk
- residents, staff and care providers of congregate living settings (such as chronic care facilities, retirement homes)
- pregnant women, because their immune system, heart and lungs change – especially later in pregnancy – making them more likely to get seriously ill from the flu
- people with underlying health conditions, such as asthma, heart disease or diabetes
- individuals in or from First Nations, Inuit or Métis communities
- members of racialized and other equity deserving communities
- first responders
- individuals with significant exposure to birds or mammals, such as poultry, livestock, slaughterhouse and processing plant workers, wildlife officers/researchers, and veterinarians
About COVID-19 Vaccines
Safe and reliable vaccines can help protect you and your family from COVID-19. They will be an important tool to help stop the spread of the virus and allow individuals, families, and workers to safely resume a normal life.
Click here to read the interview with Dr. Smith, the COVID-19 Vaccine Physician Lead for NFHT.
The COVID-19 Vaccination Will:
• work with your immune system to help keep you from getting COVID-19
• be a safe way to help build protection
Read the latest announcements from the Province of Ontario about COVID-19 vaccines. click here
Common Questions About Covid-19 And Vaccines
In our resource list below we have webpages, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube links as well where you can find good information. Here is a good summary article with lots of information click here. This extensive webpage has excellent questions and answers from a reliable source click here.
COVID Apps
COVID Alert App: The Canadian government decommissioned this app in June 2022. You can delete this app.
COVID-19 App and Symptom Tracker: There are now several apps that will let you receive the latest updates and trusted resources, and self-assess your symptoms.
Wellness Together Canada: Mental Health and Substance Use Support Wellness Together Canada provides free online resources, tools, apps, and connections to qualified people when needed.
Resources about Covid-19 Vaccines
Content on some website pages in this resources section or in the links above may not be the most up to date information.
Websites:
• Ontario Provincial Government Website
• Ontario family doctors have answered questions here
• City of Hamilton has created an extensive Q&A section, including videos
• World Health Organization
• Link to an article
• A Toronto pharmacologist breaks down the science without politicizing
• For more information about vaccine safety and reporting in Ontario visit Public Health Ontario: Vaccine Safety or review how vaccine safety is monitored. For more information on vaccine manufacturing, safety, and quality control visit the World Health Organization webpage.
Twitter:
• @GovCanHealth (Health Canada & Public Health Agency of Canada)
• @CPHO_Canada (Dr. Theresa Tam)
Instagram:
• @covidvaccinefacts – posts here are done by Canadian doctors and followed by our own staff at NFHT
• @OnCOVID19 – World Health Organization, posts a lot of videos, and information for all ages
• @healthycdns – posts by Health Canada
• @pandemicpregnancyguide – this is a Canadian resource recommended by the NFHT doctors and pharmacist
YouTube and Videos:
• How vaccines are developed – Health Canada
• COVID Vaccine Education Playlist (Dr. David Kaplan) – These are a series of very short 35-second or so clips that feature a health professional answering a question about Covid Vaccines in a very easy-to-understand way. Dr. David Kaplan is the Chief of Clinical Quality at Health Quality Ontario so all of these clips are in the Canadian context.
• For people who find science fun, cool, an interesting a recommendation from our Dr. Emma Smith.
• Do you have questions about COVID-19 vaccines? Get the facts from local Northumberland experts during the third OHT-N COVID-19 Virtual Forum
Facebook:
• @HKPRDHU Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit
• @unambiguousscience recommended by our NFHT pharmacist for easy-to-understand science.