“Without understanding our neighborhoods, we would not know where to direct these efforts and what particular barriers people face.”
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There are only 82 residents of Cumberland who, eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, have yet to receive one. That’s only about two percent of Cumberland residents age 12 and older.
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Similarly, just over 100 eligible Edwards / Carlsbad Springs residents, or 3.5 percent, have not rolled up their sleeves to take hits. In the South Keys / Greenboro West, only 276 of nearly 4,100 eligible residents, or about 6.7 percent, have not been vaccinated.
And in Vars, virtually all the world is vaccinated, with variables such as population estimates and ZIP code overlap with adjacent neighborhoods conspiring to suggest that nearly 104 percent of the residents there are fully vaccinated.
These are some of the more positive findings in the latest vaccination figures from Ottawa Public Health, available Wednesday through the Ottawa Neighborhood Study website.
But the data, which includes vaccination totals through Monday and is broken down into more than 100 component neighborhoods in the city, shows areas that still lag far behind the overall Ottawa average. So while, for example, about one in seven eligible Ottawans, or 14.2 percent, remains unvaccinated, that figure comes in at 26.2 percent, nearly double the city average, in Hawthorne Meadows / Sheffield Glen, while a handful of other neighborhoods, including Bayshore / Belltown, Hunt Club / Ottawa Airport, Ledbury / Heron Gate / Ridgemont, Marlborough, and North Gower / Kars, have unvaccinated rates hovering around 25 percent.
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However, some of those neighborhoods, which due to various socioeconomic factors and systemic barriers have ranked the lowest and highest vaccination rates for COVID-19 cases during the pandemic, have lately seen relatively improved rates of first vaccinations. . In Ledbury / Heron Gate / Ridgemont, for example, nearly a third of eligible residents who were not vaccinated 12 weeks ago, on Aug.2, have subsequently received at least one dose, a rate slightly above the city average of 31 , 9 percent. during the same period, ranking the neighborhood 35th out of 100.
Similar vaccination results were found in Hawthorne Meadows / Sheffield Glen, while Fitzroy, which had the lowest single vaccination rate in Ottawa in early August, has since managed to place needles in more than 60 percent of its residents without needles. . highest among Ottawa neighborhoods, increasing the proportion of its residents eligible with at least one dose from 62% to almost 86.
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Katie Carr is a program manager at the Ottawa Neighborhood Study, which tracks all types of data by neighborhood, including demographics such as income, education, language, and health, helping Ottawa Public Health identify areas to increase vaccination efforts through measures like partnering with employers, setting up pop-up clinics, and mitigating language barriers
The five neighborhoods with the lowest single vaccination rates are:
Hawthorne Meadows / Sheffield Glen: 73.8%
Ledbury / Heron Gate / Ridgemont: 74.8
Hunt Club / Ottawa Airport: 75.0
Marlborough: 75.1
North Gower / Kars: 75.5
The five with the highest rates are:
Varos: 106.8 percent
Cumberland: 97.9
Edwards / Carlsbad Springs: 96.5
Richmond: 96.0
Stittsville: 94.8
Visit neighborhoodstudy.ca for more information.
Reference-ottawasun.com