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scrubbedexpat091 Mar 2nd 2021 8:05 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 

Originally Posted by Revin Kevin (Post 12978980)
So there are no travel restrictions within Canada at this time? That is surprising.

Not really, Atlantic Canada might still have some, but most of Canada there isn't. BC did seek legal advice regarding closing the BC borders to non-BC residents and essential travel only but apparently was told legally it wasn't possible, and I suppose BC isn't willing to take on that legal fight and I can't blame them as BC would likely lose in court from what it sounds like.

bats Mar 2nd 2021 10:33 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12978875)
A red herring if the 5% was all in one place, yes, but it's not.
Toronto and Montreal are the two biggest cities, 600km and 6 hours apart.
The next biggest is Vancouver, over 4000km away, the best part of two days by road.

50 hours non stop driving. It takes 24 hours non stop to leave Ontario.
But yes you can't apply that argument that everyone is huddled together because we aren't.


Originally Posted by Revin Kevin (Post 12978954)
That's not great and I supose if the old folks catch thier death of cold it'll be put down as covid! Why don't they just copy what the UK are doing?

Because they have the NHS with a similar structure throughout.
Here each province will be doing things differently. In Ontario it's the Health Units who will organise distribution and administering the vaccine.

bats Mar 2nd 2021 10:42 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 
Peterborough students have been partying. 34 students with COVID now in isolation. What fun.

caretaker Mar 4th 2021 11:23 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 
Regina General Hospital has reported an outbreak in the mother and baby unit, so best of luck to everyone in there.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...3a228cb9a1.jpg

scrubbedexpat091 Mar 5th 2021 12:11 am

Re: Coronavirus
 
Variants of concern are on the rise in BC, province having trouble identifying chain of transmission for 25% of the variant cases. (variants of concern are those such the one first identified in UK or South Africa, UK one seems most common.)

Of the 564 new cases today, 46 were variants of concern.

"rolling average of new cases, as well as the number of active cases are at their highest point since Jan. 13 and the number of hospitalizations is the highest since Feb. 5. "

298,851 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered with 86,746 second doses given.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ch-4-1.5937103

caretaker Mar 5th 2021 10:43 am

Re: Coronavirus
 
If Saskatchewan had given out nearly 300,000 doses we'd have 1/4 of our total population vaccinated. Hopefully when supplies start rolling in the pace will pick up. There are some good reasons for the initial program being slow off the mark, but on a graph it looks bad.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...f66fef6bb8.png


Jerseygirl Mar 5th 2021 2:19 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 
J&J vaccine has now been approved by Canada. This makes 4 vaccines...Pfizer, Moderna, AZ and J&J available. At present the AZ vaccine will not be given to over 65s.

https://www.cp24.com/news/health-can...d-19-1.5335123

scrubbedexpat091 Mar 5th 2021 3:24 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 
No official time line for delivery for J&J but likely no earlier than April. They have faced some production problems and behind a bit on deliveries in the US so that could impact deliveries to Canada.



Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 12980087)
J&J vaccine has now been approved by Canada. This makes 4 vaccines...Pfizer, Moderna, AZ and J&J available. At present the AZ vaccine will not be given to over 65s.

https://www.cp24.com/news/health-can...d-19-1.5335123


Danny B Mar 5th 2021 4:33 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 12980087)
J&J vaccine has now been approved by Canada. This makes 4 vaccines...Pfizer, Moderna, AZ and J&J available. At present the AZ vaccine will not be given to over 65s.

https://www.cp24.com/news/health-can...d-19-1.5335123

I want the one that hurts the least....I hate needles and injections.

Jerseygirl Mar 5th 2021 4:46 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12980156)
I want the one that hurts the least....I hate needles and injections.

Me too. I have a nasty memory of having the polio jab at school...the needle came off the syringe and was left in my arm. :eek:

scrubbedexpat091 Mar 5th 2021 5:03 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12980156)
I want the one that hurts the least....I hate needles and injections.

I never did think of pain level differences between them. Only vaccine I can say hurts every time and I dread getting it, is tetanus, damn thing hurts at the day and lingering pain for a few days, luckily its only a once a decade type vaccine.

I have no memory of the childhood vaccines, and flu and tetanus is all I have ever gotten as an adult.


Siouxie Mar 5th 2021 5:32 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12980156)
I want the one that hurts the least....I hate needles and injections.


Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 12980164)
Me too. I have a nasty memory of having the polio jab at school...the needle came off the syringe and was left in my arm. :eek:

J&J is only 1 jab - so might be the one to choose :D

Revin Kevin Mar 5th 2021 6:51 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12980200)
J&J is only 1 jab - so might be the one to choose :D

Maybe it's one jab because it's a real big needle! 🤣

Jerseygirl Mar 5th 2021 7:12 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 

Originally Posted by Revin Kevin (Post 12980247)
Maybe it's one jab because it's a real big needle! 🤣

:scaredhair:

Gone are the days when jabs were from a huge glass syringe, with a long thick needle.

scrubbedexpat091 Mar 5th 2021 7:27 pm

Re: Coronavirus
 
Pfizer bumps deliveries a bit for Canada.

"Canada will get 1.5 million more doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine delivered this month, and another two million doses that were set to arrive in the summer will now come in April and May."

https://www.cp24.com/news/health-can...ries-1.5335123



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