(06-23-2021, 07:09 PM)jeffster Wrote: Obviously that 75.6% is likely closer to 80% of the population that could access the clinic. If you look at our case count, it's all in certain postal codes. A vaccine program is rubbish if it's missing the most vulnerable population, which is the way the region ran it. What percentage of those testing positive are vaccinated? Very low, something like 15% (and they're not sick, btw). The region totally dropped the ball, ignored marginalized people, ignored the poor, ignored immigrants, ignored those that don't speak English. Toronto and Peel, they didn't do that. They focused their attention in that area 3 months ago. That's why we're beating Toronto, a city 5x our size, 5 out of 7 days, in case count.
You keep saying these things, but you have zero evidence. Go take a look at the region's vaccination map, https://rmw.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeri...c02a89b133 , and Toronto's, https://www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/cov...cine-data/ .
The lower income, higher case count, neighbourhoods are about 50-60% vaccinated in both Waterloo Region and Toronto. Toronto is actually a little worse, as a number of neighbourhoods are still under 50%, whereas there's only a single one under 50% in Waterloo in rural Wellesley. The number's on the region's map are also from 11 days ago, while Toronto's is from 3 days ago, so we're probably ahead of Toronto in vaccine coverage in these neighbourhoods.
Stop just making assertions about the local vaccine rollout unless you have data to back it up. So far every explanation you've given just hasn't been supported by the data.
(06-23-2021, 07:09 PM)jeffster Wrote: Nothing to do with bad luck. It was bad management. Even today people had issues with the system -- they weren't prepared, and it's half-baked.
It's almost like everyone here works for the PHU for the region.
It's not about working for the PHU, it's about evidence. Please show me some evidence about why we've done worse. The only numbers I can find are that we got fewer vaccines due to the hotspot allocation, and that we have more delta. Neither of those are within the region's control. Everything that is within the region's control, like vaccinating shelters or low income neighbourhoods, the stats keep showing that we did as well as other Ontario PHUs.
(06-23-2021, 07:09 PM)jeffster Wrote: Should add, 2,180,000 people out of 2,956,000 have been vaccinated in Toronto. That's 73.4% of the population. WR has 375,000 out of 617,000 vaccinated, or 61%. Not sure our demographics are that different, but them are the numbers.
I have no idea where you got those numbers, but they're wrong. https://www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/cov...cine-data/ says 66.4% have "initiated vaccination" aka have one dose.
Waterloo's dashboard says we're at 63.6% of the population with one dose. We're evenly matched with Toronto in the 18+ numbers, so that's probably a mix of having a younger population and teens becoming eligible here much more recently (due to the hotspot allocation, Toronto was vaccinating teens while we were still 40+, due to lack of supply).
(06-23-2021, 07:09 PM)jeffster Wrote: I'm pissed because of this regions incompetence as we're going to be freaking stuck at Stage 1 for the rest of the summer while the province moves on. Unless things change fast. Our PHU already wants to hold us back. That's 100% on them.
Maybe people here enjoy being inside all day....no need to go out and see family and friends. No one coming over for a BBQ or drinks. Maybe I am an outlier here at WRC. I don't consider myself a social butterfly, but, hey, here we are.
I'm not happy about the current situation either. I'm just following the numbers on what they say, and I have yet to find a material difference in our rollout compared to Toronto, except for the province re-allocating our vaccines. I keep linking to data showing my points, and you keep dismissing it out of hand without any data of your own. Stop making assertions without data to back it up, because the actual data, like neighbourhood vaccination, keeps showing you're wrong.