'I think the key thing is there has been less politicization of the vaccine rollout,' said Dr. Jesse Papenburg, an infectious disease specialist.
The government's decision to diversify contracts with suppliers and sign deals withseven vaccine makers for more than 400 million doses proved to be the right move, Lexchin said, even though many are still pending government authorization.That is considerably more than required for the country of around 38 million people, and the government has pledged to donate some of the spare doses to other countries that need them.
"We spread our bets out, sort of like the stock market — you invest in multiple companies, because if some don't do well, you assume that others will, so we happened to make some of the right choices in terms of which vaccines would work," he said. Dr. Jesse Papenburg, an infectious disease specialist at Montreal's McGill University Health Centre, said"it would have been good to have had a domestic supply" of Covid-19 vaccines.
But he insisted that it should still be"a point of pride in Canada that we do have a successful vaccination campaign, even if we did get off to a little bit of a slow start." Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Vice President Joe Biden during a meeting in Trudeau's office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 9, 2016. Canada has surpassed the U.S. in fully vaccinating around half of its eligible population.Lexchin and Papenburg agreed that vaccine hesitancy has been relatively low among Canadians — which they agreed had helped with the rollout and credited to a lack of politicization surrounding the shots.
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