Azar said 40m by the end of the year barely over a month ago. And yes I am joking about anything these clowns say resembling reality.
Again, that is ready to distribute. That is a different thing than expectations about how fast large numbers of people will actually get vaccinated. (In my mind anyway.) I had read that they expect to start vaccinating people by end of year, but that it would take some time to actually vaccinate significant numbers of people.
This is an oxymoron
A competent government would have shots in arms within a week of having the vaccine in hand ready to distribute.
I donāt know about 1 week (really depends on how many doses weāre talking about here and Iāve seen widely varying estimates on what has been produced so far), but the logistics are non-trivial even for a country that is highly competent. Certainly a competent government would be doing far better than what has been achieved so far.
Maybe 1 week is slightly optimistic but you get my point. The states have only distributed a tiny fraction of their initial allotment over the first 3 weeks. There are no signs of any state or federal ramp up to administer 500-600m vaccine doses over the next 6-8 months which is what we need to accomplish to actually end this nightmare. Maybe Biden starts kicking ass in 24 days but the current rollout with no federal plan is a disaster.
Seems like eating at a well-spaced outdoor table with people in your bubble is pretty safe. The only other contact is the server and they wonāt be around long enough for you to get pozzed
My wife has her first shot scheduled Saturday. She is an Oncology NP, only Docs see patients with COVID in her service so not Frontline. Guess OSU got through the first wave.
She was on cloud nine today from news. Iām relieved cause she may be higher risk from her previous cancer treatment (tho that didnāt favor in her vaccine allotment) sheās had random heart problems since probably due to heavy radiation to her chest.
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Donāt forget that we likely have to booster those already vaccinated at some point.
Iāve mentally written off 2021 as a pandemic year and will be half surprised if the pandemic doesnāt socially end in the US before we vax significantly
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Did he specify which year?
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Do we know how other countries are actually doing so far?
Looks like today is the start of the delayed death reporting from the holidays. Over 3,200 with a few states still to report.
UK did 150 K in their first week, I think. No idea how many doses they had available, though.
Vaccinating lots of people is not easy.
If that was my store id take pictures and put them up on the wall with banned for life under them along with charge with trespassing if seen.
We literally rolled the darkest timeline for a president to handle this. Anyone else will be a massive improvement.
In the meantime we will have wasted months.
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I might have to bump Canada from its current #1 position on the whosnext country rankings. What was that country that didnāt have any cases for over 6 months due to unprecedented mitigation efforts? They might be my new number one.
Taiwan has had something like 700 cases and 7 deaths TOTAL. A single flight from the UK might have just brought in a handful of cases. Fortunately, Taiwan requires a real, enforced, hotel quarantine (not a, āyeah, sure, Iāll totes stay at homeā quarantine), so hopefully it wonāt achieve community spread.
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