More than any typical policy oversight, Canada’s failure to secure timely vaccines will have a measurable effect on the lives and well-being of its citizens. Each day spent waiting for vaccines is another day of lockdowns, another day of hospitalizations and another day of COVID-19 fatalities. One quarter of Israel is now fully vaccinated, and the U.K. has administered 13 million doses. It is now clear that Canada is dramatically behind the rest of the developed world in immunizing its citizens against COVID-19. And given new evidence that unchecked COVID-19 can actually infect up to 76 per cent of a population , that number could potentially be higher still.

Source: National Post February 10, 2021 10:52 UTC