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In addition to the supply constraint that has also been mentioned, there is a lack of political will to target vaccines in the hot spots. In Canada, health car

In addition to the supply constraint that has also been mentioned, there is a lack of political will to target vaccines in the hot spots. In Canada, health care delivery is a Provincial responsibility. However, the Federal government is the one procuring the vaccine doses. The Feds are distributing doses to the provinces based on the population-based formula all the Provinces could agree to. And the Provinces are then incentivized to get into arms locally to show they're doing something. It appears there is no political will or strong enough incentives available to change the dose distribution to be "needs-based". The result is that we're unable to target vaccination to the cities and provinces that need it most, so those places are now responding with a 3rd wave of lock downs to prevent the spike in hospitalizations.

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blaser-waffle 5y ago
In other words, all of the provinces are getting it equally, but most of the demand is in the big cities, esp. the GTA area where like 40% of Canadians live.
- cayleyh 5y ago
  Not quite - They're getting it equal based on population (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data/Canada_vaccinations_by_province https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_dat...). Ontario and QB are getting far more doses than Nova Scotia, for example. But the hot spots are in some major cities and there appears to be no way to divert the NS vaccine to the GTA, even for a short time. And demand isn't in all of the big cities. Just the ones where the provincial governments went early on removing all restrictions on high-contagion events (ie. indoor dining & church-service-like indoor gatherings). Montreal had the largest outbreak per capita of the second wave, and they're doing fine right now because they didn't do these things. And, Ontario itself is only about 38% population of Canada. The GTA is about 18%. Large, but not close to half.

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blaser-waffle 5y ago

In other words, all of the provinces are getting it equally, but most of the demand is in the big cities, esp. the GTA area where like 40% of Canadians live.

cayleyh 5y ago
Not quite - They're getting it equal based on population (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data/Canada_vaccinations_by_province https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_dat...). Ontario and QB are getting far more doses than Nova Scotia, for example. But the hot spots are in some major cities and there appears to be no way to divert the NS vaccine to the GTA, even for a short time. And demand isn't in all of the big cities. Just the ones where the provincial governments went early on removing all restrictions on high-contagion events (ie. indoor dining & church-service-like indoor gatherings). Montreal had the largest outbreak per capita of the second wave, and they're doing fine right now because they didn't do these things. And, Ontario itself is only about 38% population of Canada. The GTA is about 18%. Large, but not close to half.