keeping our patients up to date

The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly changing state of the world, and we want to be an excellent resource to our patients, and our community.

As such, we will be updating this website regularly as information becomes available.

COVID-19 VACCINE EXEMPTION

Generally speaking, there are very few acceptable medical exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccination.

  1. an allergist/immunologist-confirmed severe allergy or anaphylactic reaction to a previous dose of a COVID-19 vaccine or to any of its components that cannot be mitigated;

  2. a diagnosed episode of myocarditis/pericarditis after receipt of an mRNA vaccine.

Given the rarity of these, and in light of the the fact that vaccines have been proven to be both safe and effective, any notes written for patients who qualify for a medical exemption need to clearly specify:

  • the reason they cannot be vaccinated against COVID-19 (i.e., document clear medical information that supports the exemption); and

  • the effective time period for the medical reason (i.e., permanent or time-limited)

Local and provincial Statistics

If you would like to see the local statistics, we ask that you visit the Simcoe Muskoka Public Health website by clicking on this button:

If you would like to view the provincial statistics, then click on this button to access the Government of Ontario information site:

Consider signing up for Email updates

We know that a lot of you are getting multiple emails from multiple sources, but we hope you view us as a trusted source of medical information. As such, we will be collecting our patients’ email addresses to help build an email database in order to send you information.

Emails will be sent out from a generic email address, but we will not be replying to emails coming from this account. The volume of emails would be much too great, and current email platforms do not ensure the patients’ security for privacy at this time.

At the bottom of every page, you will find an option to sign up for our email database. Please trust that we will protect your information ,and not abuse the privilege of having your information on file.