Woodbine to Host Pop-Up COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic
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Woodbine Entertainment will host a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Woodbine beginning May 5 at 10 a.m. ET for the Rexdale community. The Toronto racetrack is located in a COVID-19 hot spot.
The vaccine clinic, which is supported by the North Etobicoke Community Cluster Partners, will operate for a minimum of three days and is open to individuals 18 years and older in 2021 and living in hot spot communities in M9V and M9W.
"We are very proud and grateful to be able to host this much-needed pop-up clinic at Woodbine Racetrack for the Rexdale community," said Jim Lawson, CEO of Woodbine Entertainment. "We look forward to working with our community partners over the coming days to deliver a positive experience that will benefit people throughout Rexdale."
The pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic will also be open to frontline essential workers who provide daily care to the horses stabled at Woodbine.
"These workers are critical to the wellbeing of more than 1,000 horses and obviously cannot work from home. Many of them live in dormitories on our property and in the surrounding areas," said Lawson.
The pop-up clinic will be open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday or until the vaccine supply runs out (2,400 vaccines per day).
Racing at Woodbine has been postponed due to a stay-at-home order for the province of Ontario.