01-08-2021, 04:22 PM
(01-08-2021, 04:04 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote:(01-08-2021, 03:14 PM)taylortbb Wrote: Additionally, our ability to inject vaccines is a huge factor in our ability to get more. Pfizer and Moderna don't want to ship vaccines that are just going to sit in freezers, they want to send them to places that will inject them. If we were injecting them faster than they were shipping them, it would be much easier for the federal government to make the case that we should be receiving more. As long as we've injected under half of our supply, we're not going to be a priority to receive more.They are also a much smaller country to logistically get the vaccine to people....
Israel announced last night they have convinced Pfizer to send them enough vaccines to vaccinate everyone 16+ by March, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel...ive-654672 . That puts them 3 months ahead of the US's claims, and 6 months ahead of Canada's claims. Their extremely rapid and effective rollout has to be a huge factor in why.
Pfizer delivers the vaccine to Canada by shipping it via UPS directly to our hospitals. It's in boxes packed with dry ice, so it doesn't travel through a special cold chain, just a regular UPS package. That doesn't work for delivering the vaccine to the territories, but it's a laughable excuse for the 95% of the Canadian population that lives in or close to urban areas. Anywhere that Amazon can provide prime shipping to, which includes most small towns, the logistics aren't the reason we're not getting the vaccines.