Kirsten Fiest, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Calgary beliieves online portals to sign up for COVID-19 vaccination will be an essential part of the mass immunization effort, because they're efficient — but not without problems. Quebec, Ontario , and B.C all say they'll launch online sites for booking vaccination relatively soon. Online booking portals currently running in Yukon and Nova Scotia were built by CANImmunize, the Ottawa based tech firm co-founded by Dr. Kumanan Wilson, an internal medicine physician and senior scientist at Ottawa Hospital. (Richard Agecoutay/CBC)McKenzie is concerned the mass vaccination campaigns across Canada built on the power of online booking portals will perpetuate the country's "digital divide." Linda O’Neil of Barrie, Ont., is concerned about when and how she'll be able to get a COVID-19 vaccination booking for her mother, who is in her late 80s.

Source: CBC News February 21, 2021 09:00 UTC