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On 12/31/20 7:17 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 12/30/20 11:48 PM, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:31:49 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:38:19 -0500, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:21:33 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: The Trump administration's Covid-19 vaccine distribution program needs a major shot in the arm because at the current rate, it would take almost 10 years to inoculate enough Americans to get the pandemic under control, a jarring new NBC News analysis showed Tuesday. The goal of Operation Warp Speed, a private-public partnership led by Vice President Mike Pence to produce and deliver safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines to the public, is to ensure that 80 percent of the country's 330.7 million people get the shots by late June. To meet that goal, a little more than 3 million people would have to get the shots each day, the math shows. U.S. falling short of goal to vaccinate 20 million people by end of year Dec. 29, 202001:33 But so far, only about 2 million people — most of them front-line health care workers and some nursing home residents — have gotten their first shots of the 11.5 million doses that were delivered in the last two weeks, a review by NBC News of data from federal and state agencies showed. "I don't think we're going to be able to distribute the 20 million doses that were promised" this year, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration under President Donald Trump and a Pfizer board member, said Tuesday on CNBC. Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden's Covid-19 advisory board, and Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, have warned that the U.S. will come up far short of projections by Trump administration officials that every person who wants a shot would be able to get one by the spring. Pence, who got his first shot this month, is on vacation in Colorado. In a statement, Operation Warp Speed spokesman Michael Pratt insisted that "there is an expected lag between shots going into arms and the data being reported." Trump, who for months downplayed the danger of the pandemic, which has infected more than 19.4 million people and claimed more than 336,000 lives in the U.S., vowed in September that 100 million doses would be shipped out by the end of the year. But in December, when the first doses were delivered, Operation Warp Speed's top scientist, Dr. Moncef Slaoui, cut the projection to 20 million. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's leading epidemiologist, told CNN on Tuesday, "Well, we certainly are not at the numbers that we wanted to be at the end of December." from CNBC === My wife and I got our first Covid-19 shot this morning along with about 800 other people. The vast majority were 65 y/o+. It was fairly well organized by the local government folks but it would be nice to have an appointment system to eliminate the long waiting lines. We were queued up at 5:30AM and there were already 612 people ahead of us. We finally got our shots around 11:30. Judy talked about going and I just said I would rather die of Covid than to be in that "Black Friday Covid shot" line. I managed to stray away from people this long, I can insult folks for another month or two until when they will be giving the shots out at Publix. You might even get a $10 gift card if it is like the flu shot. They just invented this ****. It will take a little time to fill the pipeline and I can wait. Maybe they will know more about why the doctor had to save his own life with his Epipen. I don't have an Epipen ![]() I didn't pay over a grand for a PS/5 either. ![]() === Agreed that getting out there at 0530 and waiting in line for 6 hours was a pain but the time passed surprisingly fast, and we're glad to be back on the road to normalacy. No Epipens required and I've never owned a PS/5 at any price. My wife lucked out. The vaccinations were handled in the "health center" of a local supermarket chain, and she was directed to report there between noon and one pm. When she got there, there was one person ahead of her, so she had a 10 minute wait and then got the shot. She has to return there in, I think she said, 28 days, for the 2nd shot. Speaking of lines, have you seen the incredibly long lines in Texas of folks waiting to get food for their families at food banks? Welcome to America. ![]() Texans need more folks like your wife, to bring home the bacon. :-) |
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:17:43 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote: Speaking of lines, have you seen the incredibly long lines in Texas of folks waiting to get food for their families at food banks? Welcome to America. ![]() People always line up to get free stuff. |
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