Wow, how different things are in different locations! Last week's update my county had 58 cases (weekly) per 100,000 residents. This color chart doesn't specify if those are daily or weekly counts. Either way, everything here is wide open, no masks required and many people not wearing them.Right now, masks are mandatory in every public spaces. So is social distancing. We are only allowed to meet with a certain number of people outside —backyards, outdoor dining-- (but some regions where they have less than 10 cases per 100 000* can actually eat inside restaurants!). Theaters have very low max capacity. Working from home is mandatory (when possible)... That’s how we protect people in between doses.
Here in Quebec, they will announce later today that we can now avoid the 16 weeks delay between doses. My personal prediction is that they will tell us that we are eligible for the 2nd dose after 8 weeks and will go through the same staggered pattern 70-65-60, etc. Can’t wait to see what their plan is.
EDIT: *For those who are curious, this is how they determine which level we are: out of precaution, they tend to keep us in the previous category. According to this scale (Harvard), most of Quebec should be « Yellow ». They are keeping us « Orange ». In Montreal, our numbers are « Orange » going « Yellow » but they are keeping us « Red » until June 7.
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Here in Quebec, they will announce later today that we can now avoid the 16 weeks delay between doses. My personal prediction is that they will tell us that we are eligible for the 2nd dose after 8 weeks and will go through the same staggered pattern 70-65-60, etc. Can’t wait to see what their plan is.
I hope that means you can salvage something out of this summer!
This will most likely bring me to a 12 weeks delay. Not ideal but definitely better than 16 weeks!
Here in BC, invitations to book your 2nd dose are going out to 80+ year olds, and the medically vulnerable. I'm pleased we've managed to vax about 70% of adults now with the their first dose. That's the percentage required to progress through our 'restart 2.0' plan. In 2 weeks, travel restrictions throughout the province should end, among other things. Better times are ahead.
In BC, as of today, nearly 72% of adults 18+ have been vaccinated with at least one dose and kids/teens 12+, nearly 69% of them have had one dose! BC is now officially authorizing people to mix and match vaccines for their second dose 'if they so choose' and the 8 week gap now applies to those of us (about 280,000 of us) who got AZ as our first dose. We will be contacted by the pharmacy that gave us our first dose to book our second dose, pharmacies will start calling as of Monday (going on the 8 week interval). So you can get that or you can wait for your invite from the govt of BC to book an mRNA vaccine. I'll take whichever one is offered to me first (I'm thinking it will be AZ).Vaccine News from Quebec: Delay between the two doses now at 8 weeks instead of 16 weeks. Starting monday, by group of age, people will be able to modify their 2nd dose appointments and get the vaccine faster.
DH and I will be able to change our appointments mid-June.
I think that 69% refers to everyone 12+, not just 12-15 year olds. That is why it is lower, because so few teens have been vaccinated so far.
They stated both those stats in yesterdays' presser so I'm just posting what Dr BH said.
