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BC had barely launched its mass vaccination plan last month when one thing became crystal clear: We didn’t have enough vaccines to meet our schedule. Today, we still don’t.
The province’s ambitious timeline to get you a shot starting now with seniors and vulnerable communities and then proceeding by age until October were thrown off by Canada failing in recent weeks to receive the amount of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines it had been expecting.
The delays have piled up, pushing provinces like BC further and further behind.
“We’ve had very limited vaccine supply but thankfully starting next week deliveries of our Pfizer BioNTech vaccine will start to resume at much higher levels,” Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Friday.
Ursula von der Leyen has confessed that the EU underestimated possible complications and delays in vaccine production, but defended the bloc's joint procurement program.
U.S. to start distributing coronavirus vaccines directly to pharmacies Erin Cunningham, Paul Schemm, Lateshia Beachum, Hannah Knowles
What the Biden administration has said about vaccination goals
Replay Video UP NEXT The Biden administration said Tuesday it will start distributing limited supplies of vaccines directly to retail pharmacies beginning Feb. 11, in effort to make it faster and easier for people to get inoculated. These doses are separate from those allocated to states. Jeff Zients, Biden’s coronavirus coordinator, cautioned that supply constraints will limit the early availability of shots in drugstores. He said the administration wanted to target supplies to pharmacies serving “socially vulnerable communities.”
Israel, UAE leap ahead in vaccination drive against coronavirus
A woman (R) receives a vaccine against the novel coronavirus in Jerusalem on Jan. 5, 2021. Israel has vaccinated about 1,850,000 people, roughly one-fifth of its population, as of Jan. 12, the fastest vaccination pace in the world. (Kyodo)
As every nation in the world races to inoculate its people against the deadly coronavirus, Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have jumped out front. The efficient manner in which they have acquired and administered the vaccines contrasts with what has been described as a bumbling process in the United States and some of Europe’s most advanced economies.