The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

We're getting more info as to why Canada is lagging behind all of the other countries when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine.

"Lagging behind all other countries" is very much hyperbole. If you look at the bigger countries, we don't look so bad at vaccination rates per 100,000:

• UK: 10.97 -- The only major country to approve the (locally-made) AstraZeneca vaccine; others have yet to approve due to insufficient or poor quality data from the trials. 
  
• US: 7.45 -- Used its clout to secure priority on locally-manufactured supplies of Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines.
  
• Canada: 2.31 -- Currently supply-constrained due to Pfizer manufacturing upgrade.
  
• Switzerland: 2.31 -- In spite of a big domestic pharma industry.
  
• EU: 2.19 -- Some EU countries have secured additional supplies independently.
  
• Norway -- 1.49
  
• Russia -- 0.55
  

Both Moderna and Pfizer execs have previously confirmed that Canadian orders are very close to the front of the line. Apart from US and UK (and a few special cases with Israel and the UAE) the Canadian vaccination rates are very similar to the rest of the developed world.

And our vaccine orders cover 3.3x of the population ... more than any other country.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid...tribution/