That’s not what someone just posted with first hand knowledge. Even still there are 4.5 million doses ready to be administered.
If anyone is storing vaccines in reserve for 21 days and not continuing vaccinating should be removed from there job.
Not sure what you mean, since the DSMB reps are independent from the company and sharing unblinded data with anyone from the company is pretty unusual from everything I've read. Am I missing something?
Well it figures you would be in favor of prisoners getting the vaccine before millions of more deserving people who live by the law. Should felons get it before a member of your family with a comorbidity , maybe an elderly relative or perhaps a parent? If you told me prison guards, staff , medical personnel then absolutely yes . The fact they are doing this even before vaccinating all the people in LTC, nursing facilities , and over age 70 tells us a great deal about you the man. There is no logic to your way of thinking.
But isn't the typical mutation more contagious but less dangerous?
If it’s more infectious and has the same mortality rate that means more deaths and hospitalizations. So a greater taxing of the healthcare system.
True, but that is not the typical mutation path. Typical is more contagious less harmful.
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The accounts that I've read claim it was a mutated strain that caused the worst period of the pandemic (fall 1918). The first wave that occurred in spring 1918 was worse than "typical" flu but nowhere near as lethal as that second fall wave.
That would make sense eventually but early it would seem they can become more deadly like in 1918.
No one is saying there are massive amounts of excess supply but there is a lag and fairly sizable one between currently allocated and currently administered. Further to burden an already overburdened healthcare system doesn’t make sense. Their is no federal plan on administration only delivery to states to figure it out. We can and should be doing better.
You keep saying it's a supply issue. Yet less than 20% of what has been delivered has been used. And we had the worst week for vaccinations failing to reach 3 million before the New Year. Right now supply is far down on the list of issues.
Listen to common sense. The delay in putting forth the vaccine efficacy announcements and then having no concrete distribution plan,by the states was error # 1. Allowing states to have jurisdiction over who gets it first has been a complete nightmare. The original plan as to who gets it first has been changed several times. We have seen how “ politics” comes into play. Even here on a sports board we have highly educated science people claiming they don’t have a problem with certain groups or individuals being vaccinated first. Until it’s someone close to them and who they love they will maintain that thinking. States needed to be on top of their “A”game and they have failed “biggly .” They have known for months and a plan shouldn’t be too difficult to stick with but as we now see things are not going well and it’s feasible to believe we are going to see many more die needlessly by this confusion.
Huh? Are you saying 1000s of foreigners are streaming into the US to get vaccines? Sounds like a bad conspiracy theory.
Wrong... you know it’s not that. Once again it is bureaucratic incompetence and a feeling we need to cave because social media demands it. In the end more who could have been saved will not see the vaccine.
Yes, but those people who got the vaccines sooner will develop immunity sooner, which will start reducing the burden on the hospitals. So all in all, it would be better to get as many of those shots distributed as soon as possible, even if we then have to wait a week or two for the next round to arrive.
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The news today is ... it will be months ... many months before we see significant declines or are able to vaccinate the US population. From what we have seen thus far it seems like a fair assessment of the situation in vaccinations.
