Canada Has Highest Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Per Capita In The World

[Economy 52,844]

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canada-has-reserved-more-vaccine-doses-per-person-than-anywhere-1.1533041

 

Canada has the highest vaccine contract count per capita in the world with a contracted supply of 400% of population or enough to innoculate each person once plus another 3 booster shots

 

Early on Canada made contracts with several companies including the more known ones pfizer and moderns so that regardless of which developed first supply would be available

 

Vaccinations are expected to begin next week starting with those 80 and over and those in nursing homes

[Economy 52,844]

Dunno if this is good or bad. Feels a bit like hoarding and that means less for some countries with less contracts

 

Also a lot of antivaxxers won't want them anyway. I literally was getting a filling today at dentist and the assistant was saying she's not getting one unless she's forced cuz she doesn't wanna drop dead from some side effect

 

Edit: yes I know it seems like my dentist visits always have some story worth telling

[CELINE 747]

We're definitely hoarding them or this over-stocking seems to have a political disposition behind it. 

[Economy 52,844]

1 minute ago, CELINE said:

We're definitely hoarding them or this over-stocking seems to have a political disposition behind it. 

I don't think the intention was to overstock per say. There was no telling which companies would have one available first so they just made contracts with a bunch

 

But this means some of the last contracts to be fulfilled may not be needed unless it turns out the immunity lasts very little time and we need more boosters than we thought

 

But if we don't we should give the extra away to poor countries that can't afford them. In a pandemic it would be inhumane to hoard vaccines like that

[OhHenny2020 2,822]

See, and here I thought Canada wasn’t going to have them (all) distributed until like May in a perfect world or something like that

[Blastertoyo 22,734]

1 hour ago, Economy said:

Dunno if this is good or bad. Feels a bit like hoarding and that means less for some countries with less contracts

Do you think it could be a trick to make money and potentially co-sign or sell the extra vaccines either under the table to the US or other countries?

[Maria Brink 1,685]

5 minutes ago, Blastertoyo said:

Do you think it could be a trick to make money and potentially co-sign or sell the extra vaccines either under the table to the US or other countries?

This is Canada we're talking about... A country that increases in population by millions every single year because of how welcoming the country is to refugees and those seeking asylum. New Canadians may not have access to the vaccine where they are coming from, therefore, I think Canada is trying to be prepared in the long run. 

The Canadian healthcare system is very much for the people. So they definitely want to have more than enough than not enough.

[PunkTheFunk 125,703]

I'm going to get 8 shots. One for each day of the week.

[Chic 20,830]

32 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

I'm going to get 8 shots. One for each day of the week.

Sis don’t you mean 9, I-

[Ronk 14,930]

1 hour ago, PunkTheFunk said:

I'm going to get 8 shots. One for each day of the week.

 

30 minutes ago, Chic said:

Sis don’t you mean 9, I-

 Totally.  Everyone knows there are 9 days in a week.

[LaLa 19,898]

I think this was a good idea, we had no idea which ones would actually pan out. 

I still think it's going to be long time until I (relatively young and healthy, low risk) get that icy-cold Covid juice into my veins... I want it now 

[Economy 52,844]

12 hours ago, gagasrat said:

This is Canada we're talking about... A country that increases in population by millions every single year because of how welcoming the country is to refugees and those seeking asylum. New Canadians may not have access to the vaccine where they are coming from, therefore, I think Canada is trying to be prepared in the long run. 

The Canadian healthcare system is very much for the people. So they definitely want to have more than enough than not enough.

More like 500k a year

 

but yeah our Immigrantion rate is one of the very highest in the world. About 1% of population annually now