well? how come over a week ago the feds said they had secured enough vaccine to vaccinate everyone in canada and then some but health officials in toronto and other regions across canada say that it's in short supply?
My understanding is that there is a difference between "secured" and "have on hand"....we have secured an adequate supply but it will be delivered over a period of time at something like 2 or 3 million doses a week. If everyone in the country shows up in the first week with their sleeves rolled up.....then we will see shortages.
and why are there only two clinics open as of now? why isn't the vaccine being administered in schools like other vaccines have been given historically?
Schools are a tough place to administer something that has to be done over a fairly limited time......how many schools are there? how could we distribute, efficiently to so many locations and have adequate staffing at all of those locations.
As inconvenient as this is, it makes sense to me that this is a case where people have to go to the needle rather than it coming to them.
The small number of clinics this week is, I think, due to this week supposed to be for just people in the at risk categories.......our panic levels though, have exposed this as too few.
did the feds tell a fib about vaccine stocks? did they choose poor shipping methods? what gives?
Part of the new delays (there are news reports that less will be available next week, for example) is that we have now insisted that we get some adjuvent free doses to calm the fears of pregnant women. So the right (probably) decision has been made to get this key group a dose that they will take....but it means a slow down/bottleneck in the supply for the rest of us.
I think government is out there trying to address an issue and calm the fears of the general public, but it is a situation that is new to them and they are trying to strike the right balance. For every person that says "we don't have enough and it is not getting out there fast enough" there is someone saying "hey we are rushing this out there and we have no idea if it is safe"....
...I don't think anyone is lying/fibbing here....just people doing the best they can in a very trying situation.