====== Public Health Ontario ======

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**Public Health Ontario** is a Canadian [[public health|public health]] authority for the province of [[canada:Ontario]].

===== History =====

==== COVID-19 crisis ====

In September 2021, Public Health Ontario adjusted their guidance to suggest youth aged 18-24 receive the [[BNT162b2|Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine]] instead of the [[Moderna mRNA-1273]] product due to elevated risk of [[myocarditis|myocarditis]]. However, individuals in that group could still receive the Moderna shot so long as they gave "[[informed consent]]."((Casaletto, L. (2021, September 30). //Ontario recommending Pfizer over Moderna vaccine for young adults.// CityNews Toronto. https://web.archive.org/web/20220716051319/https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/09/29/ontario-moderna-vaccine-side-effect/))

===== External links =====

  * [[http://covidtruthinitiative.ca/e/en/Organizations/Government-of-Ontario/Ontario-Ministry-of-Health-and-Long-Term-Care/Public-Health-Ontario|COVID Truth Initiative]]