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Vaccine Distribution Lags Badly
On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 6:55:44 PM UTC-6, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 12/30/20 6:13 PM, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:46:26 -0000 (UTC), Justan " wrote: On 12/30/20 5:13 PM, Wayne B wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:02:06 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 12/30/20 1:38 PM, 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. Worth the wait, though. Congrats. My wife got her first vaccination shot yesterday...I probably will be able to do so in January, I hope. Which vaccine did you get? === Moderna. Looks like Trump and DeSantis came through for you. It would be nice if you showed your gratitude. :-) === Trump is a has been in my opinion, and deservedly so. The jury is still out on DeSantis. He may be OK once he gets his head out of Trump's butt. Cy Vance, the DA of New York County, has hired himself some forensic accountants to look into Donald Trump's affairs. That's a very serious step in a criminal investigation and portends for indictments after Trump leaves office. From the Daily Mail: Manhattan DA 'hires forensic accounting specialists' to help in criminal investigation of President Trump and his business operations Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr reportedly hired FTI Consulting to aid his probe. Vance is investigating Trump Organization in wide-ranging criminal probe. FTI Consulting offers expert forensic accounting and investigative services. Vance's probe is one of several legal threats to Trump after leaving office. Trump can't pardon himself out of those messes. -- I don’t wanna be mean, but wonder, why would he speak up and hire a legal team right NOW? doesn't it seem as if he should have hired this team quite a while ago. Is it possible they have been working on the assignment for quite some time, but he picked now to admit it for some political or legal strategy reason mk5000 She could tell he totally dug the encouragement. She waggled her fingers at him and meant to say, “You’re welcome,” but instead shouted, “Behind you!” During that moment of inattention— which really Leo should have known better than to indulge in— Dmitri threw a mighty hook.--― Eve Langlais, When an Omega Snaps |
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