Dear Neighbour,

Please see the updated information on vaccine roll-out below.

Yours in community,

Nrinder Nann
Ward 3 City Councillor

Eligibility is 50+ for those living in local hotspots

Hamilton Public Health and our health partners have opened eligibility to anyone 50 years and older who live in any of the 5 hotspot zones; both those identified by the Ministry of Health (L9C and L8W) and those identified through local Public Health analysis (L8N, L8L, L9K).

L8L and L8N both fall within Ward 3. As announced earlier this week, there are two Pop-Up Vaccine Clinics at Norman Pinky Lewis Recreation Centre and Bernie Morelli Community Centre. Both are booking residents whom are 50 years old and older. You can only book using Hamilton Public Health’s Hotline (info). Please note, these pop-up vaccine clinics are currently only running from April 7-11th.

As of now the province hasn’t uploaded our local hotspots (L8N, L8L and L9K) into the online booking tool, so only the ministry identified ones (L9C and L8W) are bookable for those 50+ through the online tool.

If you live in L8N, L8L and L9K to book into the mass vaccination clinics or the Pop-Up Vaccine Clinics, you must call the hotline (905) 974-9848, option 7.

Eligibility for residents who live outside the hotspot zones remains at 60 years and older.

Which Ward 3 areas are Hotspots?

FSA is an acronym that stands for Forward Sortation Areas, in other words, the first three letters of a postal code. If your postal code starts with L8L or L8N in Ward 3 and you are 50 years old as of this year, then you are eligible to be vaccinated. This means residents in Stinson, Lansdale, Gibson, Stipley, and Crown Point.

How are Hotspots determined?

Hamilton Public Health used data up from up to March 2021 including case counts, positivity rates, transmission occurrences, barriers access to testing/assessment centres, social determinants of health and the Ontario Marginalization Index which measures multiple axes of deprivation in Ontario, including economic, ethno-racial, age-based and social marginalization.

The Ontario Ministry of Health used data from up to January 2021 focused on hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID19, as well as the Ontario Marginalization Index.

I fit the eligibility criteria of a hotspot location, where are all the Vaccination Clinics I can book into?

Norman Pinky Lewis Recreation Centre – 192 Wentworth Ave N

Bernie Morelli Community Recreation Centre – 876 Cannon St E

Hamilton Health Sciences Clinic – 293 Wellington St N

First Ontario Centre – 101 York Blvd

How can I help spread this information to my neighbours?

Many of our neighbours do not have access to technology or digital access. So they won’t even see this social media post/email.

You can use your neighbourhood phone tree to call and share this information with neighbours directly.

Vaccine Update: Eligibility now 50+ in Covid-19 Hotspots