U.S. plans to send 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Canada, says official: Reuters. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
If this (potential) allotment is doled out on the same per-capita basis as the other shots then Ontario would see about 585,000 of those doses.
That'd be nearly a third of the amount of vaccines that have been distributed by the feds in that province since December. (1.45 million distributed, so far, in Ont.)
This would be more than enough shots to vaccinate every single Ontarian aged 75-79 years of age with one shot (there's roughly 390,000 of them in the province) and it would put a dent in the 70-74 cohort, too (there's roughly 520,000 in this age category.)
Needless to say, the U.S. gift/loan would be a significant boost to the provincial vaccination campaigns.
The U.S. has administered an impressive 116 million doses, so far. 41 million people have been fully vaccinated, according to the latest CDC numbers. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra… While Canada is at 3.5 million doses administered.
White House spokesperson, Jen Psaki, also implied other vaccines may be flowed north: "I will say broadly speaking we also anticipate having additional doses of Moderna, Pfizer, of a range of vaccines, even as we focus on ensuring every adult American has access to the vaccine."
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