got hold of a map from mid-October that showed that the area surrounding Edmundston had some of the lowest rates in the province: only 65-70 per cent of eligible population there were vaccinated, compared to more than 80 per cent for the province as a whole.
If rural residents believe their wide-open areas are safer than densely-packed cities when it comes to getting COVID-19, Kevin Wilson has bad news for them. He tested that idea by crunching data, comparing Nova Scotia, which has experienced a far less severe pandemic than most of Canada, to the least densely populated health regions in the country. His calculations showed thathad more than five times the number of cases and deaths as Nova Scotia, on a per capita basis.
, every neighbourhood reports at least 67 per cent of eligible residents with at least one dose of vaccine, while the overall rate for the city is 87.7 per cent. And though the city suffered earlier in the pandemic, its rate of new cases isAs provinces lift public health measures, persuading the unvaxxed in those areas of low immunization to get the doses is key to keeping the pandemic at bay, Wilson believes. Immunity will come from a vaccine or the disease itself.
“It should be as easy as possible in those pocket areas,” he says. That could include loading an industrial mini fridge full of doses into a van to drive it to wherever there is a group of people who need vaccines. “Do whatever you need to do,” he says, “to make those pockets less obvious on a map.”
rockymtnsky Have to say it!….”it’s the rural, uneducated, religious right conservative idiots not getting their jabs!” There I said it!
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