02-26-2021, 12:10 PM
(02-26-2021, 10:13 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(02-26-2021, 10:09 AM)ac3r Wrote: Health Canada approves use of AstraZeneca vaccine: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/astraze...-1.5929050
Worth noting that while the article states it has an efficacy of 62.1%, it does provide 100% protection against severe symptoms/hospitalization/death: https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre...rials.html
Is there any information on what the delivery schedule would be? I assume this means the entire schedule the PCs presented yesterday gets thrown out...at least assuming they aren't exclusively limited by distribution capability.
Is the Ontario schedule actually supply-constrained? They expect to vaccinate about 3M people by the end of June (ages 65 and over). But, even without AstraZeneca, the federal government is expecting 23M doses for Canada, which would equate to about 9.5M for Ontario. Sure, some of those 3M people will get second doses, but it still doesn't look like much more than 5M doses, much less than will be available.
If it's not supply-constrained, having AstraZeneca will not make any substantial difference.