Canada's Push For Vaccines Paid Off, Country Has World's Highest Global Vax Rate, 70.3% Fully Vaxed

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- ‘I knew supply was coming’: how Canada’s push for Covid vaccines paid off
Anita Anand’s determination to get doses for Canadians means the country now has world’s highest global vaccination rate. The Guardian, Aug. 13, 2021.

For many Canadians, spring was a dark period marked by surging coronavirus infections, lockdowns – and the envy of watching their American neighbours get vaccinated en masse. But for Anita Anand, the country’s public services and procurement minister, the mounting frustration that Canada was being left behind in the global vaccine race didn’t make her lose focus.

“I knew that supply was coming. I knew Canada’s position was strong,” she told the Guardian in an interview. “And I continued to say to my team, ‘It is not how you start the race. It is how you finish the race that matters.’ We need to stay focused, and we need to stay determined.” Today, Canada has the highest vaccination rate – of single and double doses – anywhere in the world. Almost 82% of the eligible population age 12 and older have received at least one dose – and 70.3% are fully vaccinated.

The success – a combination of savvy negotiations, financial resources and high trust in public health institutions – has likely prepared it to battle an impending fourth wave, led by the highly-infectious Delta variant. But Canada’s success also underscores the challenges of balancing vaccine procurement with the inequities in global access.

“We do have pretty good confidence in our governments at all levels and there’s a certain degree of social solidarity, trust in medicine that might not exist in other countries,” said Barry Pakes, a professor of public health at the University of Toronto, on why Canadians were eager to take the doses. While widespread social inequities exist in Canada, they are not necessarily as pronounced in other nations, including the United States...

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[rurallib]

1. for our friends in Canada who often show us what can be

[Worried2020]

2. I'm one of them!

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Got my 2nd jab 3 weeks ago, but I'm still doing the mask, social distancing thing.

I hate the mask, but I sorta wanna live as long as this old body holds up.

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[appalachiablue]

3. Bravo, and you deserve it! Lucky Canadians,

from your dysfunctional 'cousins' across the border..

[Worried2020]

5. I've visited the US on and off since the 60s

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Once in 79-80 when I spent 14 glorious months in San Diego and area when I was much younger and healthier.

Y'all aren't "dysfunctional"

But I cannot say the same about your leaders . . . . . .





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[Bev54]

4. I am proud of my fellow Canadians, now if we can get our stupid govn't in

Alberta to mandate masks for kids going back to school. Rural Alberta and rural Sask have very low rates of vaccination, some as low as 30%. The only good I heard from them was they were making the vaccinations available in the schools for those over 12, so no excuses from parents to say they don't have time to take them.

The Canadian government just mandated all federal employees must be vaccinated (effective Oct) or rigorously tested, along with federally regulated transportation such as airplanes, trains, busses etc. I truly think we can get to 90% vaccination rate.