07-09-2021, 09:47 AM
(07-08-2021, 10:26 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(07-08-2021, 09:21 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Well this should add a little to the discussion we've been having:
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...-arms.html
80,000 doses in the freezer seems problematic. Blaming it on hesitancy is definitely not entirely unwarranted, but that ultimately comes down to a communications problem.
I'm not entirely convinced by Mr Outhit's analysis. Yes, there were about 60,000 surplus doses (they need about 20,000 or more to keep up the current pace of vaccinations)
Yes, there is now big inventory of vaccines, but those did not show up until the end of June (the inventory chart shows as June 20th); setting up additional vaccination sites or activities takes time. The vaccination pace went up about 30% from mid-June until just before the Canada Day holiday weekend.
Moderna hesitancy? Yes, most of the inventory is Moderna, but that's because of what the new shipments were. I personally haven't heard of anyone complaining about Moderna. But I see no evidence that there is any significant Moderna hesitancy. (I have AZ+Moderna myself.)
Staffing clinics will still surely be a challenge, though. I do hope that they are pushing hard to get more doses delivered through pharmacies, family doctors and urgent care clinics.
I mean, yes, generally I'd be suspicious too lol.
Were these doses not expected? I mean, we could blame the province as well. But the region should have been preparing (and claimed to have been preparing) to give more doses. At one point they claimed they would be able to very quickly ramp up to 10k per day. They even claimed to be testing that by having days where they gave out a larger proportion of their doses.
As for moderna hesitancy, I can also say that I have heard people be hesitant about Moderna. For some I think it's because they got Pfizer first, for others, I dunno...people be crazy. Usually there's some reason for the crazy, I have no idea why Moderna is the one being looked down on in this case, but it does seem to be true. Of course, again, the region/province could be doing more to combat this.
FWIW again, I have no idea what flu vaccine I got last year, apparently there are multiple options.