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Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday that Canada is doing better than the United States in its vaccination rollout right now because of the political divisiveness in the U.S. over vaccines.
CNNs Kate Bolduan asked the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director about Canadas progress in vaccinating their population compared to the United States, recently surpassing the U.S. on percentage of the population that has been completely vaccinated.
Fauci said that Canadas doing better not because we trying any less than they are trying, but because in Canada you dont have that divisiveness of people not wanting to get vaccinated, in many respects on the basis of ideology and political persuasion, and thats something that weve been saying for some time now.
He continued to express concern about vaccines being politicized, saying it doesnt make any sense to essentially disregard or dont pay attention to whats obvious.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fauci-says-canadas-doing-better-on-vaccine-rollout-because-of-us-political-divisiveness-over-vaccinations/
roamer65
(36,747 posts)That region is annoyingly conservative, thus rather stupid.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)the vaccine in the US - are getting it in greater numbers because they are rational, intelligent people who dont want to be mistaken for idiots.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Alberta Health Services has rented a convention centre with a massive parking lot. When you get inside, they've opened up the partitions that normally separate the large rooms so there's an open area about the size of two football fields.
As you book an appointment ahead of time (mine was same day) lines are relatively short but that's also because there's an online pre-check that you just wave at them, a dozen or so intake desks, then row on row of vaccination stations. When you're done you wait in another large area supervised by some nurses.
I was in and out in 45 minutes.