07-09-2021, 04:23 PM
(07-09-2021, 09:47 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(07-08-2021, 10:26 PM)tomh009 Wrote: 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.
Plus what you had mentioned about communication.
I still believe that area arenas and community centres are a great option to reach 'hard to reach' citizens. This is especially true of community centres - get neighbourhood associations to help reach those, and open up the centres for vaccinations. You'd be hitting a very different population, which is a good thing.