01-18-2021, 01:49 PM
(01-18-2021, 01:41 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(01-18-2021, 12:42 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: We were deployment constrained for weeks. That's weeks of excess deaths we could have avoided.
And that was a situation where we had 4-8 months of prep time. We didn't know when the vaccines would come, but we knew they would, and we were unable to start deployment quicky.
So I no longer have trust that when we do start getting millions per week, that deployment will ramp up. It is unacceptable if we have wait 2-4 weeks while vaccines sit in freezers because our government wasn't prepared for something that was entirely expected.
That's some deaths that could have been avoid, how many, I really cannot tell. Not massive numbers, though, as the number of doses is still fairly small.
The provinces really need to quickly ramp up the readiness for mass vaccination. I haven't seen anything that would give me the confidence that any of them are ready for this yet.
Those deaths prevented would have been minimal if the vaccine was not targeted, because the vaccine is targeted at the most vulnerable people, it's likely that it would be a significant fraction of deaths, although I don't want to speculate on specific numbers.
We certainly agree on the second point.