To answer the first question, I think that as the length of time the reactor was down progressed, we would have stabilized on the amount of technetium and molybdenum that we were able to get. I think we would have maximized what we could get from the worldwide supply, so we would have reached an equilibrium at that point. At that point there probably would have been about 30....
BMS has about 80% of the Canadian market and Covidien has about 20% of the Canadian market. Covidien was able to ramp up a little, and that would have brought it up to maybe 35%. Let's say they could double it, to 40%; we probably would have had a 50% to 60% shortage of radioisotopes and we would have needed to make sure that our supply was as appropriate as possible.
At the same time, we probably would have been able to look at other isotopes for some of the tests. Thallium 201 probably would have been able to take a little more of the technetium heart scans, and the use of fluoride from cyclotrons may have been able to ameliorate some of the bone scans. The problem with the fluoride would have been that there are very few cyclotrons in Canada and that it has a very short half-life of two hours. It would have been a stopgap measure. Only the larger centres in Canada could do that.
We would probably have been able to rationalize better and better what we were doing. The number of Canadians missing their tests probably would have been around 50% to 60%. That's just looking at the numbers as I see them now.
The communiqué was generated out of relief that something had happened. We felt that the government must have had the appropriate information to make that decision. We're not in a position to evaluate how the decision was made or why the decision was made, but once it was made, it was certainly a relief to all the nuclear medicine physicians in Canada.