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The U.S. has fully vaccinated 19% of its population, compared to 1.9% of the population in Canada

In a reversal of earlier pandemic trends, Canada is on the verge of matching — perhaps surpassing — the United States in the number of COVID-19 cases relative to its population.

Updated data compiled from the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dataset shows that the United States sits at roughly 196 COVID-19 cases per one million people, and Canada, as of Tuesday, was at 180 cases per one million people.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said a lot of things on Wednesday, as he announced a crushing lockdown stricter than the previous ones. But what he didn’t say much about is the harm that’ll inevitably follow from those measures.

As much as the officials would like to ignore them, those harms are always there looming in the shadows, and they keep mounting.

A mass vaccination site at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Colorado was shut down after several adverse reactions to the Johnson & Johnson CCP virus vaccine, said Centura Health, which is managing the site.

More than 600 people who had appointments were turned away from the “Vaccines for All” event in Commerce City after 11 people who were administered the shot developed adverse reactions during the on-site observation period, Kevin Massey, a spokesperson for Centura Health, told local news outlets.

Ontario reports 3,295 new COVID-19 cases; ICU occupancy sets new record high

Ontario reported 3,295 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, along with 19 more deaths, as hospital ICU admissions hit a new record high.

Ontario reported 3,215 new cases on Wednesday, 3,065 on Tuesday and 2,938 on Monday.

The seven-day rolling average of new cases is now 3,093, up from 2,988 yesterday.

Why Canada is losing the race between vaccines and variants as the 3rd wave worsens

Much of Canada is in the grips of a worsening third wave as COVID-19 vaccinations slowly ramp up, and experts say the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants is throwing gasoline on an already-raging fire.

“We have a lot of virus moving around the country and escalating very, very quickly,” said Jason Kindrachuk, an assistant professor of viral pathogenesis at the University of Manitoba and Canada Research Chair of emerging viruses.

“Vaccinations are certainly starting to pick up, but we’re nowhere near where we need to be to get this thing under control.”

I can’t help but wonder if this lockdown is going to accomplish anything at all.

It was always known that Canada’s failure to procure timely vaccines would yield otherwise preventable waves of disease, but only now is the rubber starting to meet the road.

Ontario is fast approaching more active cases than at any time since the start of the pandemic, with the province now racking up a new COVID-19 diagnosis every 15 seconds, the majority of them the highly infectious and more deadly variants. Upticks are also rearing their head in Quebec and Western Canada. In British Columbia right now, nearly 10 per cent of the 100,000 COVID-19 cases logged since March, 2020 have occurred within the last two weeks.