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Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee · 2021-09-02 · 2021.DI17.3

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Update on COVID-19 Vaccination

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2021-09-02 · Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee · amended

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The Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee: 1. Recommends that City Council request the Medical Officer of Health, in consultation with the Toronto Accessibility Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines, people with disabilities, support persons, and other equity deserving groups, to ensure that any mandatory vaccination policy or program recognizes legislated or regulatory exemptions or a Human Rights Code related accommodation request for exemption and report back to the next meeting of the Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee on November 15, 2021.

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2. Recommends that City Council direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry, and Recreation to make any public printers at community and recreation centres available at no cost to residents to print their provincial vaccine receipts to ensure equitable access. 3. Recommends that City Council request the Toronto Public Library Board to make any public printers at libraries available at no cost to residents to print their provincial vaccine receipts to ensure equitable access. 4. Recommends that City Council write a letter to the Ontario Ministry of Health to encourage them to expand the accessibility of the Ontario Vaccine booking portal directly and to make it possible for disabled Ontarians to be able to book the accommodations they need to be vaccinated. 5. Requested the Program Manager, Accessibility Unit to invite representatives from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) to give a presentation or to provide a report to the Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee on the challenges of disaggregated data on people with disabilities and COVID-19 infection and vaccination rates to date, including issues in collecting the data and what can be done to expedite the collection of disaggregated data similar to other jurisdictions.

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Dr. Eileen de Villa, Medical Officer of Health will give a presentation on the status of COVID-19 vaccination in the City of Toronto.

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