🇨🇦 For those who read these updates but are in Canada, I’ve done a little research into how things are going here and it seems that we’re actually doing an okay job of distributing the vaccines we have, but we don’t have nearly enough yet to immunize the population. From CBC:
Using the intuitive distribution-to-administration time-delay framing in another comment by Unnamed… where the USA’s shortfall is 17 days, Canada’s got as short as 3 days this week!
That yellow curve above looks like an exponential that’ll reach our 38M population in just 6-7 weeks (doubling weekly) but based on the actual news I’m reading, the plans are not nearly that ambitious. Unlike in the USA where people are panicking and flailing and trying to seem ambitious and failing hard, it seems like Canadian leaders are just acting like planning to immunize everyone by September is a reasonable thing to do, and we’re doing okay at that plan. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A few details:
Like the USA, there’s been discussion of “equitable” allocation of vaccines here, but I’m not really complaining about that as long as the shots are rapidly going into arms, which they do seem to be.
There were also very few vaccines over xmas here -_-
Pfizer is having to delay some of their deliveries to Canada (and other countries getting shipments from Europe factory) as well, for some logistical reason I haven’t investigated in depth.
We have now purchased 80M vaccines though, enough for 2 shots for everybody, they’re just… not ready yet.
Shoppers Drug Mart president says Canada’s pharmacies could administer 2.5M to 3M/week but nobody has been in touch with them to help them plan how to help.
Would be nice if the USA could send us some of the vaccines they don’t know what to do with, as it seems they’ve got enough extra for half of our population. Or you know, if Pfizer would just send us some that is slated for the USA until the USA figures out how to use what they’ve got.
🇨🇦 For those who read these updates but are in Canada, I’ve done a little research into how things are going here and it seems that we’re actually doing an okay job of distributing the vaccines we have, but we don’t have nearly enough yet to immunize the population. From CBC:
Using the intuitive distribution-to-administration time-delay framing in another comment by Unnamed… where the USA’s shortfall is 17 days, Canada’s got as short as 3 days this week!
That yellow curve above looks like an exponential that’ll reach our 38M population in just 6-7 weeks (doubling weekly) but based on the actual news I’m reading, the plans are not nearly that ambitious. Unlike in the USA where people are panicking and flailing and trying to seem ambitious and failing hard, it seems like Canadian leaders are just acting like planning to immunize everyone by September is a reasonable thing to do, and we’re doing okay at that plan. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A few details:
Like the USA, there’s been discussion of “equitable” allocation of vaccines here, but I’m not really complaining about that as long as the shots are rapidly going into arms, which they do seem to be.
There were also very few vaccines over xmas here -_-
Pfizer is having to delay some of their deliveries to Canada (and other countries getting shipments from Europe factory) as well, for some logistical reason I haven’t investigated in depth.
Starting in April, the Canadian government is aiming for rolling out vaccines at 1M/week. That’s a lot compared to our current “0.5M in the last month” but it still doesn’t immunize the whole population until sometime in September or October (which is also what Trudeau had generally pointed at a few days ago, I believe).
We have now purchased 80M vaccines though, enough for 2 shots for everybody, they’re just… not ready yet.
Shoppers Drug Mart president says Canada’s pharmacies could administer 2.5M to 3M/week but nobody has been in touch with them to help them plan how to help.
Would be nice if the USA could send us some of the vaccines they don’t know what to do with, as it seems they’ve got enough extra for half of our population. Or you know, if Pfizer would just send us some that is slated for the USA until the USA figures out how to use what they’ve got.
Here are two tracking sites I’ve been using:
VaxView
CTV tracker
Is it possible to make this a standalone post? This is fantastic information.
Prompted by your comment, when I wrote more stuff last night, I made it standalone:
Covid Canada Jan25: low & slow
I saw it and sent it to my Canadian friends. They really appreciated your update.