Quebec's vaccination plan being unveiled today will start with 40,000 nursing home residents plus staff. Some 325,000 other health care workers will go second, then 136,000 people in retirement homes. 46,000 in isolated communities next. https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/12/07/operation-vaccination-au-quebec-aines-et-personnel-des-chsld-en-priorite

Won't it be grand if everyone in nursing homes is vaccinated by the end of January?

The plan puts 418,000 people over 80 next, then people over 70 (768,000) then people over 60 (1.16 million). Then people under 60 with risk factors (1 million), then essential services workers, and finally the rest of the adults (3.5 million).

Children and pregant women are at the bottom of the list, in part because no vaccine has been tested on them yet.

Health Minister Christian Dubé said current estimates suggest Quebec will get enough vaccine to innoculate 650,000 people in the first three months of 2021.

By my math, that means they will get through nursing homes, health care workers, reitrement homes, isolated communites and just get started on 80+ by the end of March.

Quebec is expecting 4,000 doses next week. They will go to nursing homes in Montreal and Quebec City.

A couple people have said 650,000 vaccinated is not much. I get that, but given 80 per cent of deaths are in the places vaccinated in the first round, it's still a very big deal.

Sometimes the ol' mentions give the distinct impression no plan is good if it isn't the mentioners' plan. Vaccine is no exception. https://twitter.com/PattiDevine/status/1336049373873057798?s=20