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Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 7 Apr 2020     Emergency workers ask that the community stop sending restaurant food deliveries or bringing food to show appreciation for their efforts and instead donate to Kawartha Lakes Food Source.

    Kawartha Lakes Paramedic Service thanked the community for their donations of personal protective equipment after their two appeals for help procuring enough supplies, as well as the various forms of

    The City made a second appeal to the public for donations of personal protective equipment supplies for the Kawartha Lakes Paramedics Service.

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 23 Mar 2020     Kawartha Lakes reached out to the community, asking all manufacturers and non-essential health-care practitioners such as veterinarians, to help outfit its paramedics in personal protective equipment

    The Community Paramedic, Kawartha Lakes Paramedic Services, tested people at home that were unable to get transportation to the assessment centre or had mobility issues making them unable to leave ho

    A video message for the public by frontline staff and First Responders set to music with images and photographs.

City of Kawartha Lakees, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 26 Mar 2020     The Kawartha Lakes Paramedic Service thanked the community and businesses for the donations of personal protective equipment supplies following a call to the community for additional supplies.

Lentz. Marissa, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 9 Mar 2021     Compassion fatigue is just one of the many examples of how the virus has negatively effected the mental health of paramedics across the province.

Lentz. Marissa, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 10 Mar 2021     Between 50 and 60 percent of Kawartha Lakes and Peterborough-City County paramedics have been vaccinated.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 20 Jul 2020     Ross Memorial Hospital looks back at how the COVID-19 Assessment Centre model had changed since March. Although only 38 tests were completed in the first 3 days of opening on March 16, 2020, those wh

    Five creative solutions and new ways of working together emerged as a result of the unique situations health care providers and social agencies faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 31 Mar 2020     Lindsay’s Ross Memorial Hospital continued to take steps to ensure the safety of its patients, team and community remained a top priority. To this end the hospital established a dedicated unit to pro

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 25 Dec 2020     Local newspaper readers let the publication know who they thought should be acknowledged for their hard work during the pandemic in Kawartha Lakes.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 24 Mar 2020     Kawartha Lakes residents who had COVID-19 symptoms and needed to be tested, but didn’t have access to a vehicle, were able to obtain in-home assessments. The Ross Memorial Hospital, in partnership wi

    Ross Memorial Hospital released a message to the community regarding increased testing volumes at the hospital, how they maintained safety while resuming some services, and that cloth masks were requ

Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 16 Feb 2021     A Kawartha Lakes police officer, assigned to the Support Services Division, has tested positive for COVID-19. This is the first positive case at the Kawartha Lakes Police Service during the pandemic.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 5 Jun 2020     Local healthcare groups got a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic, but leaders were very aware of how easy it could be to lose that grip.

    Laurie Scott, MPP Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock, shared community displays of kindness from within her constituency. Examples were taken from Twitter and Instagram posts.

    Local police, fire and paramedics all came together on Thursday November 5 to help a Lindsay girl celebrate her birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    A shared Facebook post from the Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation about being happy to see people coming to the drive-thru vaccination clinic hosted at the Lindsay Exhibition Fairgrounds.