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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine from medical staff at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday Jan. 6, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Oded Balilty January 08, 2021 - 11:10 AM
Canada s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been slow to gather momentum since it began weeks ago, causing some to wonder how other countries have shown such promising progress with their own immunization efforts in a shorter amount of time.
Expert say it may be tempting to compare numbers and time frames from international examples, but they warn that direct country comparisons are usually fraught with error.
Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti, an infectious diseases physician in Mississauga, Ont., says Canada s vaccination efforts â somewhere around 10th in the world in doses given per population after Wednesday â absolutely needs to improve.
JERUSALEM Order early, pay a lot, digitize distribution and stretch the supply. That is how Israel came to be a leader of the world s COVID-19 vaccination drive, reaching nearly 15% of the countryâs 9.3 million population in about two weeks. The first big decision was paying a premium to get early vaccines. Israeli authorities have not said publicly what they paid for the vaccine developed by U.S. company Pfizer and German partner BioNTech. But one official said on condition of anonymity that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s government was paying around $30 per vaccine dose, or around twice the price abroad.
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