LILLEY: New vaccine announcement may impact election timing
Health Canada has approved the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine and doses could start arriving as early as next week — that’s the good news. The bad news is there aren’t enough doses to significantly move up the timeline for most Canadians seeking a vaccine shot. But what it means for the timeline of a federal election is another matter. While as many as 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive before the end of March, the increases in doses for the second quarter running from April 1 to June 30 will only see an additional 3.4 million doses added. Most of the more than 20 million doses under contract will arrive between July 1 and Sept. 30.