Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls
by blaser-waffle on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:05AM
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In other words, all of the provinces are getting it equally, but most of the demand is in the big cities, esp. the GTA area where like 40% of Canadians live.
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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls
by cayleyh on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:39AM
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Not quite - They're getting it equal based on population (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_dat...). Ontario and QB are getting far more doses than Nova Scotia, for example. But the hot spots are in some major cities and there appears to be no way to divert the NS vaccine to the GTA, even for a short time.
And demand isn't in all of the big cities. Just the ones where the provincial governments went early on removing all restrictions on high-contagion events (ie. indoor dining & church-service-like indoor gatherings). Montreal had the largest outbreak per capita of the second wave, and they're doing fine right now because they didn't do these things.
And, Ontario itself is only about 38% population of Canada. The GTA is about 18%. Large, but not close to half.