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Vaccine Rhetoric and Realities

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Yazata Offline
I just received an e-mail from my HMO that included this text:

"We're glad that eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines will be expanding to people 50 and older starting on April 1, and to people 16 and older on April 15. We look forward to vaccinating all our members and communities, but for now vaccine supply remains limited. We haven't received enough doses yet to vaccinate everyone who is eligible. In northern California, Kaiser Permanente has over 900,000 members 50 to 64, and over 2 million members 16 to 49, yet we receive 55,000 to 75,000 doses each week."

It isn't clear what "doses" means. If it means vaccine necessary to completely vaccinate one individual, then at the rate of 75K doses/wk it will take 12 weeks merely to vaccinate the over-50's. If it requires two doses to complete a single individual's vaccination protocol, double that. If vaccine supply is closer to 55K some weeks, add more time.

So politicians can give whatever grand speeches they like, but they don't necessarily equate to reality on the ground.
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#2
Syne Offline
Yeah, Biden saying he will get 200 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days is only because he entered office already on track to exceed his original 100 million in 100 days.

But by that time, the average number of daily doses was already nearing the 1 million shots a day threshold needed to meet Biden’s promise. And by Jan. 20, the day of Biden’s inauguration — a day that saw nearly 1.5 million vaccines administered — the seven-day average was about 966,000.

The following day, Jan. 21, another roughly 1.5 million doses were administered, bringing the seven-day average to over 1 million per day. After Biden gave a speech on the COVID-19 response, a reporter asked if — given the pace of vaccination he inherited — Biden shouldn’t have set his bar higher.
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/02/factch...tion-goal/


It would be ironic if he raised the bar only to have production capacity fail to meet it.
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