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I am talking about the US allowing vaccine shots to be exported to Canada, which should have been a million doses per week. Your link is about Canadians lining
by smnrchrds 5y ago
I am talking about the US allowing vaccine shots to be exported to Canada, which should have been a million doses per week. Your link is about Canadians lining up at the border to be vaccinated in the US, which at best would have been in the order of a few hundred doses per week. Even if that plan went ahead, the number of American doses getting into Canadian arms would have been, approximately, a million doses a week short of expectation. If the expectation is 1 million doses and you get a thousand doses, you would be the same amount of disappointed as getting 0 doses.
Also, the decision to bar people from getting vaccinated on the other side of the border was not solely a Canadian decision. US disallowed Canadians going there to get vaccinated too. There was a very short period of time between the time Canadians started going to the US for vaccines and the time US banned this practice.
Also, your link is from July. That was right around the time vaccines became abundant in Canada and vaccination was opened to all regardless of age and health status. The disappointment was in early 2021, when Canada was still vaccinating 80+ people and US decided to vaccinate all 16+ people before allowing vaccine exports here so we can at least vaccinate people in elderly care homes.
> Canadians hoping to cross the border for the sole purpose of getting a COVID-19 vaccine will be turned away, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/confusion-abounds-after-u-s-border-agency-bars-entry-to-canadians-looking-to-get-vaccinated-1.5434903 https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/confusion-abounds-...