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What is considered a highest-risk health conditions?

This includes organ transplant recipients, hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, neurological diseases, haematological malignancy diagnosis, kidney disease, pregnancy, and essential caregivers of anyone with these conditions.

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What is considered high-risk health conditions?

This includes people with a body mass index over 40, those receiving treatments that cause suppression of the immune system and individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

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What is a at-risk health condition?

This lengthy list includes people with immune deficiencies, stroke or cerebrovascular disease, dementia, diabetes, liver disease, cancer, respiratory disease, heart disease, hypertension with end organ damage, diagnosis of mental disorder substance use disorder, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, immunocompromising health conditions, and other disabilities.

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What about education and child-care workers?

Education workers supporting students with special needs, education workers in hot spots and child-care workers in licensed settings are all now eligible to book a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Who is in group 1 of those who cannot
work from home?

This includes elementary and secondary school workers, workers who respond to critical events, people in enforcement, inspection and compliance roles such as law enforcement, workers in childcare, foster care agency workers, agriculture and farm workers, and funeral, crematorium and cemetery workers.

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Who is in group 2 of those who cannot work from home?

This includes essential and critical retail workers, those in manufacturing industries directly involved in supporting the COVID-19 response and other essential businesses and services with a heightened risk of outbreak, social workers, transportation, warehousing and distribution workers, courts and justice system workers, electricity, communications infrastructure workers, water and wastewater management workers, financial service workers, veterinarian teams, waste management workers, oil and petroleum workers, natural gas and propane gas workers, mine workers and uranium processing workers.

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Retail workers include anyone working at grocery stores, food banks, pharmacies, ServiceOntario, ServiceCanada, Passport Canada, wholesalers and general goods, restaurants and LCBOs.

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