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I had no problems getting my appointment, I just found it disorganized once I got there.
 
India just had the biggest single day spike on record. More than 100,000 new COVID cases in a 24-hour period. They are also no where near ready for all ages vaccination.


www.businessinsider.in

India surpasses Brazil and US, becomes the country with highest daily COVID-19 cases in the world

India' daily Covid-19 tally is now the highest in the world, surpassing Brazil and the US, as it recorded over one lakh cases in the last 24 hours.
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www.indiablooms.com

Amid record-high Covid cases in Mumbai,Delhi; Centre says vaccination for all ages not anytime soon | Indiablooms - First Portal on Digital News Management

New Delhi/IBNS: The Centre on Tuesday made it clear that vaccination for all ages will not open anytime soon, stressing on the need to cover the most vulnerable groups amid a surge in Covid cases in India.
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Jonny5 said:
I am curious how did you book that one and who was running it? I read in The Star about the City run clinics by William Osler which are supposed to be the opposite; they view themselves as offering a "flight attendant service" (their term) as opposed to a "assembly line service". The whole philosophy they talked about was to sit someone down in one single spot and have everything come to them, rather than that person go to all the different service spots in the facility.
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It is the major mass vaccination clinic downtown; it's run by the City of Toronto. I registered my husband through the provincal website at https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/. To be fair, considering the crowds, I'm not sure the kind of service you mention would work down there.
 
gabe said:
They were supposed to wear masks. About three people out of 40 thousand had masks on. We should send all the people in Ontario that don't want the vaccine a one way ticket to Texas. Seems to be an awful lot of people who either don't want the vaccine or have vaccine hesitancy... Which will extend this lockdown even longer.
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Anti-maskers and antivax people are why we can't have fun stuff.

I agree that they should be sent to DFW.
 
Videodrome said:
The TDSB is closing down all schools as of tomorrow.

www.cp24.com

‘Untenable’: De Villa says rising danger of fast-spreading variants led to decision to close Toronto schools

Toronto’s top doctor says she made the decision to shut down schools in the city after reviewing three weeks’ worth of data showing that the rising number of COVID-19 infections in the community is being reflected in school settings as well.
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Not great, but necessary. If only the decision had been coordinated and enacted with advance warning at the provincial level, which is MIA as expected.

AoD
 
afransen said:
They are more beholden to China now, than they were then.
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The US has rejoined the WHO (they still hadn't fully left). As well, the US leaving didn't happen until MayJuly, months *after* the pandemic started, so it has little bearing on the China somehow controlling the border closure recommendations at the beginning of the pandemic.
 
Jonny5 said:
I am curious how did you book that one and who was running it? I read in The Star about the City run clinics by William Osler which are supposed to be the opposite; they view themselves as offering a "flight attendant service" (their term) as opposed to a "assembly line service". The whole philosophy they talked about was to sit someone down in one single spot and have everything come to them, rather than that person go to all the different service spots in the facility.
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My father-in-law got vaccinated at the Thorncliffe Park site and it was very much like the 'flight attendant service' as he sat down and everyone came to him with the various forms, jab, and post-jab checks.
 
zang said:
The US has rejoined the WHO (they still hadn't fully left). As well, the US leaving didn't happen until MayJuly, months *after* the pandemic started, so it has little bearing on the China somehow controlling the border closure recommendations at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Then being during the SARS epidemic. China has a lot more diplomatic sway these days than they did 15 years ago. China was applying pressure in Jan and Feb not to declare pandemic or recommend travel restrictions. The original question was why the WHO stalled on recommended travel restrictions or advisories, when they did recommend them for places such as Toronto during the SARS epidemic. They probably should have similarly recommended travel advisories for China/Wuhan in January, but did not. Presumably China had an influence on that course of action.
 
afransen said:
Then being during the SARS epidemic. China has a lot more diplomatic sway these days than they did 15 years ago. China was applying pressure in Jan and Feb not to declare pandemic or recommend travel restrictions. The original question was why the WHO stalled on recommended travel restrictions or advisories, when they did recommend them for places such as Toronto during the SARS epidemic. They probably should have similarly recommended travel advisories for China/Wuhan in January, but did not. Presumably China had an influence on that course of action.
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“Presumably” is an assumption with zero proof.
 
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