If Ontario is doing so poorly at the vaccine rollout why are they so far ahead of the other provinces in doses administered?
they are ahead in total doses, but they have a bigger population, so in terms of vaccines per resident, they are lagging.
I just looked at the vaccine tracker and Ontario seems to FAR ahead of everyone else at the moment.
They have more people to administer, so they are not far ahead.
You mentioned Quebec, which I think is considered by all to be the worst struck province for COVID, as of right now they have administered only 1349326 doses vs. Ontario's 2192253. Thats 842000+ more doses administered in Ontario. Ontario is only roughly 38% bigger than Quebec and yet they have administered about 62% more doses.
The math here isn't hard.
Vaccines administered in Ontario-2,192,253/ population of Ontario-14745040=14.87 of the population vaccinated.
Vaccines administered in Quebec-1,349,326/ population of Quebec - 8,494,500= 15.88 percent of the population vaccinated.
Western provinces haven't even administered anywhere near that. They are all still well under one million doses administered.
Yes, but smaller populations. Look above.
And while they may have vaccinated less as a percentage of the population compared to Ontario, look at how much they have administered of what they got.
Alberta has distributed 89 percent of the vaccines they have gotten from the feds.
Saskatchewan 86 percent.
The only real laggard out west is Manitoba, but they don't have the gall to blame the feds for their rollout. For reference, Ontario, while complaining they don't have enough vaccines, has 600 000 sitting in freezers. They have only used 77.8 percent of the vaccines the feds have given them. And there are stories coming out daily about how different health regions are closing down vaccination sites, and others saying they don't have near enough. While 600,000 sit in storage.
It is well known these vaccine doses require precise storage and delivery conditions, if you're relying on more deliveries that don't come I don't think it's as simple as just taking surpluses from elsewhere and diverting them, you would need a plan to replace those stocks also at that point and it could be worse than just waiting out. For this plan to work plane and simple it relies on both the feds and provincial politicians to work together and ensure deliveries where required. If the feds fail to deliver somewhere, it may be unreasonable for the province to re-divert doses intended for elsewhere to where the expected batches aren't delivered even if there is a surplus in one area. Ontario has been doing a good job of getting people on waiting lists for unused vaccines as well, and right now there is a hold up with AstraZ as they are re-evaluating how safe it is for certain ages.
Everyone is doing this. Every province.
To me it seems like a bit of a stretch to put blame on a province that is leading in doses administered.
They are not leading squat.