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Originally Posted by fotze
Thats awesome, good work Calgary Health region. 1 million divided by 10,000 per day is indeed 100 days.
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In an earlier CBC article (
that was probably linked to earlier, but here it is) it sounded as though Alberta was caught off guard by the early approval of the vaccine. They thought they had until the second week of November to get their stuff together.
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"We didn't expect this vaccine until the second week of November so it's only late last week that we heard that the vaccine had been approved by Health Canada," chief medical officer of health Dr. Andre Corriveau said on CBC Radio's Wildrose on Monday.
"And I think it was quite an amazing feat over Friday and over the weekend that HS [Health Services] was able to train their staff and set up those clinics. And now they're just getting started. So let's give it a few days before we criticize the approach that's being used."
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But it's all a moo point anyway, because the province only got 400,000 doses this week.
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"For all of Calgary, in a serious pandemic that has been foreseen for half a year, there are only four immunization clinics and only five in Edmonton," said Liberal MLA Kevin Taft, who tried to get a shot at a clinic in Edmonton Monday. "Nine clinics to urgently immunize two million people won’t do the job."
But the current number of clinics was based on fact the province was given 400,000 doses of the vaccine to start its program, Corriveau said.
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