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Canada is the slowest among G7.

vaccines administered per 100 people: • Canada at 0.14 • United States at 0.59 • United Kingdom at 1.18 • Bahrain at 3.23 • Israel at 4.37

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Honestly no-one should be reading _too_ much into numbers, especially all-time numbers, just yet. The UK approved early, so it has a head start. Most EU countries only started in the last few days. The US and Canada are somewhere in between.

Daily numbers will start to become more useful in the next couple of weeks.

In real terms though that head start could be significant given how quickly things can get out of control with this virus. The U.K. has been vaccinating for nearly a full month now which accounts for 750,000 of the most vulnerable people. That’s a good head start.

Huh? The G7 is Canada (0.14), France (no data), Germany (0.05), Italy (no data), Japan (no data), the United Kingdom (1.18) and the United States (0.59).

We only have data on 4/7 in the G7 (at least at [1] and in your comment) and Canada isn't even last amongst those 4.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

where did you find these figures? I've been trying to find some reliable source to keep an eye on it and I haven't been very successful so far

Check this out: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

The sources they use to compile the data are listed here: https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/blob/master/public/dat...

Wish I could find estimates showing “At current / projected vaccination rates it will take X years to vaccinate 90% of the population”, per country. I heard on TWiV (This Week in Virology podcast) for the US it was ~6.6 years and I believe it was based on < 90% of pop.

_Current_ rates are likely not worth worrying about, not this early on. Rates should be expected to increase fairly dramatically in the next weeks.

I hope so. But, frankly, most national and local responses to this outbreak have been subpar. I do not take it for granted that we (the US) can pull off this major logistical challenge smoothly or on an aggressive timeline.

New vaccines will likely be approved over the next few weeks (particularly the Oxford one), greatly increasing supply, and the kinks around distribution and administration will be slowly worked out (the Oxford one will also reduce the logistical challenges there; no special transport or storage needed). I'd be very surprised if rates don't go up considerably within a month.

Is that likely to get approved in the US? My understanding is that the trial was not good enough to pass the FDA bar.

Ah, looks like they may hold off til Feb. for US approval. (Results expected from another trial by then)

Here’s why I worry: https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1343768397084053505?s=...

Thanks, that's awesome

this one is also good https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

You know that the G7 also includes France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, right? Which are all below Canada's vaccination level so far.

That and I'd think vaccination rates depends not only on how easy a country's population can afford such, but also, and perhaps more so, the level of anxiety (both, fear of severe COVID-19 as well as side effects of vaccine).

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