01-18-2021, 10:19 AM
(01-17-2021, 09:31 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(01-17-2021, 08:40 PM)ac3r Wrote: Oops, typo yeah. But still, they've done a lot better job than we have. I know our geography impacts things to an extent, but still, the vast majority of Canadians live in developed urban areas. We could be doing a lot better than we are.
A small, compact country (less than half the area of Nova Scotia), with a single-level government and super-high emergency preparedness. This is not at all like our country or society -- just as we are not like Taiwan. As of yesterday, they had inoculated about 20% of their population* with the first dose, which is indeed a lot, about 2M people. They got additional supplies of the vaccine by basically signing the entire country up to be part of an extended trial for BioNTech/WHO.
While there have been some fits and starts to the provincial vaccination programs, the primary limiting factor for us is the vaccina availability. While we have signed up for hundreds of millions of doses, only BioNTech and Moderna have been approved, and we need to wait for them to deliver vaccines to us. Where do you see the big gap? Are the provinces not vaccinating, and the stocks are piling up? Or is the federal government not accepting available deliveries of the vaccine?
* That, of course, doesn't include the 4.5M Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories, whom Israel doesn't consider their responsibility to vaccinate.
I believe things are improving as of last week, but for a while, our stockpiles were rising much faster than vaccinated numbers.
Further, I still haven't seen rampup goals or targets which would enable us to hit the numbers that we need to hit achieve mass vaccinations, when we do start to get large numbers of deliveries. After the hickups at the beginning, I want to see those plans...we're paying a lot of money for them after all.