edbikebabe wrote:
g_lev wrote:
s5100e wrote:
in the US could that 40% correlate in any way with the electorate leaning ie Republican vs Democrat at the individual level?
The issue in Canada was not a want but availability. That has changed and the rate is reflecting that. add to that the situation in the most densely populated provinces like Ontario and people are running not walking to get vaccines.
So it could be a number of things but yeah things seem to be going better in Canada right now.
Out of curiosity, how do you know this? I wonder if the anti-vax and the vax-hesitant simply are hiding behind the veil of availability. I am interested to see how many people in Canada wind up vaccinated once there is no supply issue.
It took Alberta 119 days to get the first 1 million doses administered. The next million took 29 days. (Government has made the choice to get everyone their first dose before we start doing second doses). There are 4.5 million people in the province - and not all of them are able to get vaccinated (under age 12 etc). Here at least it was a supply issue, not a demand issue.
I updated my previous post with more data to provide some idea to support that in Canada it is a case of availability. The utilization rate (the rate of doses used vs available) in Canada is over 80% and is steady. here it is again:
https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinegap.html if it was not availability then the gap would widen as more people get vaccinated or at the least the # of vaccination would decline We are over 40% with first dose. The US situation is that the dose rate daily # of doses delivered has steadily declined since April 15. That is a widening gap against the number of doses the US has currently available to give and the number of people accepting the vaccine. Very different scenarios it seems.
Also of note from the NY Times: obviously related to US voting patterns and vaccine uptake:
The New York Times recently
analyzed vaccine records and voter records in every county in the United States and found that both willingness to receive a coronavirus vaccine and actual vaccination rates were lower, on average, in counties where a majority of residents voted to re-elect former President Donald J. Trump in 2020.