Your numbers are very similar to Ontario's, and in fact Canada in general as a whole.

But what's strange is out the US doesn't seem to reflect this.

There are states with fairly high vaccination rates where vaccinated people are ending up in the ICU at rates many times ours, and are only showing up as 2.5 or 3 times better protected than the unvaccinated for hospitalization.

I don't know how to explain this other than length of time since injection. But we're heading into 6-7 months here now in Ontario and I'm still not seeing this trend. Boosters will certainly help, I'm sure, but I don't feel it can be the sole cause.

It's so ridiculous just driving across the border... look at Vermont or New York compared to Ontario or Quebec in terms of daily case rates and hospitalization. (Or Maine compared to New Brunswick, etc.) The only way I can explain it is by masking, which is still rigidly followed here in most of Canada, but not as much in the US.

PS congrats on having perhaps the most competent governments in North America in terms of managing this disease. It's not the first time I've found myself browsing for real estate in Nova Scotia, but it certainly became more serious this past year...