That pretty much confirms my own impressions, though I’m still pretty pessimistic about how things will go here (in BC where I am, and in Canada generally). I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised, though. Right now it feels like there might be some wishful thinking going on, though I have no specific reason to believe that the vaccination forecasts are wrong, except for things like the Pfizer delays and that we haven’t much exceeded 40,000 doses per day for well over a month (https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html); this doesn’t look like we’re ramping up.
My biggest concern is how the more contagious variants will factor in, and that we still haven’t approved more than the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines; feels like we’re not treating this like a race, and that right now is when we need to be the most aggressive (and I’d like to think that the people making decisions understand the risks of going slower). https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-industry/drugs-vaccines-treatments/authorization/applications.html indicates that AstraZeneca’s vaccine application was started prior to either Pfizer or Moderna, so feels like they are dragging their feet on a decision (hard to not approve at this point).
More personally, it feels bizarre that according to the current guidelines in BC, my 78 year old mother won’t get vaccinated until April/May. She’s relatively healthy, though Parkinson’s disease does mean she can’t isolate herself as much I can. We have a family friend that owns property in Florida who recently flew down there and got vaccinated, to which I can only ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Huh yeah, weird. It’s like, what are they waiting for with AstraZeneca?
It is worth noting that I think ~40,000 doses per day is according to plan at this phase, a plan which calls for like a million doses a week as of the start of April. Which sounds like a lot but is still way too slow! (A million a day would be awesome.) But the failure to ramp up continues to be a failure of intending to ramp up, it seems. I’ll be quite concerned if we fail to ramp up to even the unambitious levels planned for April. I don’t know to what extent useful prep is happening to ensure that we’re ready to go hard once we get more doses.
That pretty much confirms my own impressions, though I’m still pretty pessimistic about how things will go here (in BC where I am, and in Canada generally). I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised, though. Right now it feels like there might be some wishful thinking going on, though I have no specific reason to believe that the vaccination forecasts are wrong, except for things like the Pfizer delays and that we haven’t much exceeded 40,000 doses per day for well over a month (https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html); this doesn’t look like we’re ramping up.
My biggest concern is how the more contagious variants will factor in, and that we still haven’t approved more than the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines; feels like we’re not treating this like a race, and that right now is when we need to be the most aggressive (and I’d like to think that the people making decisions understand the risks of going slower). https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-industry/drugs-vaccines-treatments/authorization/applications.html indicates that AstraZeneca’s vaccine application was started prior to either Pfizer or Moderna, so feels like they are dragging their feet on a decision (hard to not approve at this point).
More personally, it feels bizarre that according to the current guidelines in BC, my 78 year old mother won’t get vaccinated until April/May. She’s relatively healthy, though Parkinson’s disease does mean she can’t isolate herself as much I can. We have a family friend that owns property in Florida who recently flew down there and got vaccinated, to which I can only ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Huh yeah, weird. It’s like, what are they waiting for with AstraZeneca?
It is worth noting that I think ~40,000 doses per day is according to plan at this phase, a plan which calls for like a million doses a week as of the start of April. Which sounds like a lot but is still way too slow! (A million a day would be awesome.) But the failure to ramp up continues to be a failure of intending to ramp up, it seems. I’ll be quite concerned if we fail to ramp up to even the unambitious levels planned for April. I don’t know to what extent useful prep is happening to ensure that we’re ready to go hard once we get more doses.