Have you seen how slowly that 65% is moving. It took 11 days to go from just over 60% to 65%. We won't get to 75% (or if we do it will be September or October when it happens). Numbers have stopped moving any significant amount.
The difference is the percentage of the entire population vaccinated and the percentage of the eligible population vaccinated. The confusion lies on the ambiguity of what is actually needed because the goal post moves often. Originally it was of the eligible population and now it seems to be of the entire population.
If you change it to eligible people it goes to 75% vaccinated.
our health unit sent out an urgent message to the community to sign up and get an appointment for their first jab Pronto a few weeks before we hit the timing window for 2nd shots to be given. The reason being we've had to pivot to focusing more on those needing the 2nd jab within the time-frame originally set out and now that we've been declared a delta hot spot we've been moved to the accelerated time-frame meaning even fewer doses are available for first shots.
I'd agree but they haven't stopped booking 1st doses. I know not everyone has access to the provincial systems but the majority do and the appointments go to either 1st or 2nd. There would be no reason to not increase the number of people with partial protection because people with no are even more at risk than those partially protected.our health unit sent out an urgent message to the community to sign up and get an appointment for their first jab Pronto a few weeks before we hit the timing window for 2nd shots to be given. The reason being we've had to pivot to focusing more on those needing the 2nd jab within the time-frame originally set out and now that we've been declared a delta hot spot we've been moved to the accelerated time-frame meaning even fewer doses are available for first shots.
I'm not sure if there would be any way to correlate the data to compare the percentages or not BUT if other areas in the country are following the same protocol that our health unit is it makes sense to me the rise in 1st doses appears to be slowing down while the percentage of fully vaccinated is quickly increasing
We are at the 75/20 number already. They only count eligible people.
again I can only accurately comment on my health unit's activity which is why I mentioned that and added the funky lil shrug but we can't book first shots of we're looking for our 2nd AND my invite came today with a wonky link that only gives me the ability to choose a 1st shot but it won't let me book one of the few slots visible to me. Hubby's link works properly however, and it shows a bunch more times at the same places on the same day. So at least in my area we don't have a many spots allocated for each dosage. Those of us in hotspots do need to be fully vaccinated BTW, the Delta VOC is a real kicker and a single dose only provides about 30% protection, that's what's happening in Waterloo ☹
Do you have a news article for this because last I heard it was total population
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sandra...ccinated-before-canada-us-border-reopens/amp/
That article is from over a month ago. This one from yesterday says total population.
I always thought they meant 75% of eligible people as kids under 12 can't get it yet.
Like I said moving goal post
Hopefully, I watched Trudeau's spiel on Friday and it definitely didn't sound like eligible because by Friday we were pretty much there but they way he spoke made it sound like we were no where close. He said that he doesn't want to open because vaccinated people can still spread it to the unvaccinated and until we had more numbers vaccinated he wasn't ready to loosen the border restrictions significantly.
