For fully vaccinated. Up here we have focussed mostly on first-dose coverage, and we even delayed second dose to get as many first doses out as possible. Ontario is now at 79% first dose coverage for those over 12 (93% of those over 60 years) and 60% fully vaccinated over 12. It looks like we may ultimately settle around 90% over the next few months?<p>I'm pleasantly surprised. I honestly expected it to drop off after about 70% and for us to start running out of volunteers not much after the USA. I guess people's hesitancy has dissipated. And the antivax spectre was overblown, at least here. Some local data for the curious: <a href="https://russell-pollari.github.io/ontario-covid19/vaccinations" rel="nofollow">https://russell-pollari.github.io/ontario-covid19/vaccinatio...</a>
Canadians <i>love</i> flattering comparisons to the US. As a Canadian, however, this pandemic mostly revealed how dangerously incompetent most levels of government are in this country.<p>Canada has had some of the longest, most evidence-free lockdowns of any Western country. Our vaccine acquisition strategy was a disaster, saved only by the near miraculous ramp-up in manufacturing capacity by two American pharmaceutical companies: Moderna and Pfizer. None of those vaccines were manufactured in Canada.<p>The federal government effectively doubled the national debt in about a year, firehosing money to any and all causes indiscriminately. Small businesses like restaurants and gyms remained closed or severely restricted in much of the country for well over a year, while large foreign businesses like Costco and Amazon thrived. Only in the last month have things started to open up again.<p>Provinces instituted draconian restrictions, up to an including a months-long 8PM curfew in the province of Quebec. Movement between provinces, a constitutionally-guaranteed freedom, was severely curtailed - roadblocks with police presence were often set up to prevent "non-essential" travel within the country.<p>All manner of restrictions on fundamental freedoms were reaffirmed by the courts, relying heavily one Section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as its escape clause: "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."<p>Translation: fundamental rights can be abrogated by government whenever it's convenient to do so.<p>The minority federal government used the pandemic opportunistically, shutting down legitimate investigations into misuse of government funds and ramming through legislation that was unrelated to the pandemic - draconian gun control legislation, massive increases in carbon taxes, regulation of social media, "hate speech" laws that aim to severely curtail freedom of expression, the list goes on. Any criticism of these bills was met with cries of "Now is not the time for criticism, this is a pandemic!".<p>With a useless senate, captive courts, and weak opposition parties, our government has shown itself to be a rather authoritarian one. And with no term limits, it's quite possible we could be under the thumb of incompetent authoritarianism-lite for the next decade.<p>The worst part is that few Canadians seem to be bothered by this.
I would love to know how they're tracking this because when I ask at the clinic they said all the proof I have of my vaccine is the paper they printed off and it's up to me to inform my doctor. I also mixed Pfizer and Moderna at the recommendation of the government and had a terrible reaction. I then discovered the CDC does not advise mixing. In line with the top comment, I've lost all faith in Canada, it's government and its people.
It's interesting to compare time-series graphs of doses/(100 persons) for various nations. The USA had an inflection point in mid-April, at about 60 doses per 100 persons. I don't know the ratio of single-dose vaccines to double-dose vaccines, but assuming the latter to be in the majority, this suggests that the eventual coverage will be in the range of 60%.<p>By contrast, Canada seems to have hit an inflection point in mid-June, at about 90 doses per 100 persons.<p>In Canada, about 13 percent of persons are under 12 years of age, and the vaccines are not permitted for them. Therefore, in rough terms, the pattern so far is indicating that essentially every eligible Canadian is likely to receive the vaccine. Linear extrapolation based on vaccination rates over the past 10 days suggests that this result may be achieved in under 2 months. Naturally, linear extrapolation is a problem in a system like this, but the Canadian data are not sufficiently past the inflection point to justify nonlinear regression.<p>The Canadian story is being played out in several other countries as well: inflection points occur somewhere above 80 doses per 100 persons.<p>As in so many things, the USA is exceptional.<p>Graphs, as of today, are at <a href="https://imgur.com/a/hANzuWt" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/hANzuWt</a>, based on data from covid.ourworldindata.org. (I don't want to post my website where this graph is auto-updated daily, along with case data for various nations, plus provincial data in Canada and state data in the USA, simply because it is on a server in a research group that cannot withstand hackernews-scale traffic.)
Here are the current number of deaths per million from COVID for the G7 nations:<p>Japan - 119<p>Canada - 696<p>Germany - 1,093<p>France - 1,704<p>US - 1,876<p>UK - 1,886<p>Italy - 2,118<p>Judged by this metric, Canada came second among the major first-world democracies. We did well. To be sure, there were missteps. We should have done better. But we could also have done a whole lot worse.
They vaccinated a ton of people with Astra and then let them mix second doses and I know people who got Pfizer 1st dose and Moderna 2nd dose and just a complete shit show. I'm surprised they arn't injecting people with soup of the day at this point or some hybrid of all 3 (Astra/Pfizer/Moderna). What's funny is they find this worth bragging about while under the worlds longest lock downs and still not completely open. The whole thing is a disaster from start to finish but they have this huge inferiorty complex where they compare themselves to the USA in every way and then pat themselves on the back convincing themselves they're better in some way. Just cringe.....<p>Disclaimer: Canadian