So many people have been vaccinated in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood that the community has begun to achieve significant local herd immunity, according to experts from Vancouver Coastal Health. "People in those settings are at the highest risk of both contracting and transmitting COVID-19," Hayden said. In fact, she said, people who got COVID who were residents of the Downtown Eastside were about four times more likely to be hospitalized than people in the general population. A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccination to at-risk people in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver on Tuesday. I'm very hopeful that that represents our future in the broader community," Hayden said.

Source: CBC News April 24, 2021 02:48 UTC