🇨🇦 Canada update: we are WAY behind on vaccines (2.7% of population) and the bottleneck is very clear: we don’t have the doses.
The “why” is also becoming a bit more clear: we never even tried to create a big manufacturing plant for it last year and instead just tried to partner with everybody, including a deal with China that was announced last May and started going sideways 3 days later but we’re just finding out now that it completely fell through and is a nonstarter! Wtf.
Not sure what we can do about any of that now though, unlike the USA where Zvi points at many obvious mistakes being made in the present, or choice points around approvals.
Meanwhile cases continue to trend downward (restrictions are mostly working) but there’s no reason I’m aware of to think we aren’t still going to gradually see growth of the UK strains and others.
🇨🇦 Canada update: we are WAY behind on vaccines (2.7% of population) and the bottleneck is very clear: we don’t have the doses.
The “why” is also becoming a bit more clear: we never even tried to create a big manufacturing plant for it last year and instead just tried to partner with everybody, including a deal with China that was announced last May and started going sideways 3 days later but we’re just finding out now that it completely fell through and is a nonstarter! Wtf.
A couple articles to read on that front:
Canada-China vaccine collaboration began to fall apart days after Ottawa announced clinical trials (Globe & Mail)
LILLEY: Britain’s vaccine success the path Canada should have followed (Toronto Sun)
Not sure what we can do about any of that now though, unlike the USA where Zvi points at many obvious mistakes being made in the present, or choice points around approvals.
Meanwhile cases continue to trend downward (restrictions are mostly working) but there’s no reason I’m aware of to think we aren’t still going to gradually see growth of the UK strains and others.
Here’s a longer update I wrote awhile ago: Covid Canada Jan25: low & slow