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Data gathered by Ryan Imgrund, a biostatistician who consults with public-health agencies in Ontario, show that the most-populous province has the lowest per capita vaccination rate. Mr. Imgrund said the numbers breakdown to 76 people per 100,000 getting their shots in Ontario and 106 per 100,000 in Alberta. Both provinces are well behind Prince Edward Island, which has inoculated 939 people per 100,000, according to Mr. Imgrund’s data.
Alexandra Hilkene, a spokesperson for Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott, tied the lower vaccination rate to staffing. “Schedules for vaccination clinics were adjusted over the holidays to ensure that there was no impact on staffing levels,” she said.
Dr. Morris said vaccine strategy is the latest example of Ontario’s halting response to the pandemic.
“They should absolutely be administering them faster,” he said. “Almost every step of the way, we haven’t been [acting] with the urgency that the response requires, that’s my belief, and we’ve seen this repeatedly. So, in Ontario, we had a delay of lockdown for five days until Boxing Day, and that kind of urgency is reflected on, similarly, how many vaccines have been administered so far.”
Canada has approved vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. The federal government is expecting to receive a total of six million doses of the two vaccines by the end of March. The vaccines are distributed to the provinces and territories to administer on a per-capita basis....
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Unless it's an absolute emergency, no one should be flying.
