Is London ready to roll up its sleeves for dose number three?

Vulnerable Ontarians are starting to receive their third shots of vaccination against COVID-19. But if jab number three were to be widely available in London, how many residents would be willing to roll up their sleeves for a booster?  

CBC went to Covent Garden Market in London to find out.

John Hancock

Hancock is already double-vaccinated. If the province suggested everyone was to get a third shot, he said he would take it to "have that extra security in your mind, saying, 'Oh yeah, I got my booster.'"     

Mary Jane Lindsey 

Lindsey is fully vaccinated and would also get a booster if it was recommended by the province.

"You can't take chances," she said. "You know, the virus is there and you've got to face up to it. I mean, that's the way I look at it: it's there, we've got to do something about it, and can only do our part, that's all."

Dwayne Vernal

Vernal hasn't had his first shot, so a third one isn't on the table.

He said he "didn't feel like it was necessary," but that when it's time to travel it will be. It makes him fearful to think that if a third dose is required, "this thing is not getting under control. It's getting worse." 

"When I think like that, I just keep the same mindset I have," he said, "which is to stay healthy and stay away from people, stuff like that."   

Gary Brown and Chris Greenwood

Both Brown and Greenwood are double-vaccinated.

They are open to a booster, but the recommendation would need to come from scientists as opposed to the province.

Even then, Brown said that "a lot of countries are holding off because they think it's dramatically more important to get the rest of the population doubly-vaxxed before we add in a third option of vaccination, but I have no problems with it."