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Originally Posted by opendoor
Barring supply issues, 100M doses in 100 days is an extremely low bar to meet and ending up anywhere around that would have to be considered a big failure. Deliveries are expected to come in at more than double that.
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Without a solid distribution plan that is consistently applied across the country, that target is difficult to hit.
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Right now, the US doesn't have a problem due to lack of doses ordered or distribution issues; they're just hitting the limits of the manufacturing capabilities of the companies.
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Yes, there are significant problems. The lack of direction and logistical expertise from the feds has made this a massive boondoggle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-1...bution-states/
"After months of planning, the U.S. government's "warp speed" rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has instead progressed at a snail's pace, threatening to prolong local lockdowns and increase the virus death toll in America. "
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/01/polit...eed/index.html
"Some states have expressed disappointment with the rollout, acknowledging their own issues but also seeking more federal resources amid concerns about the burden they now have to get vaccines into patients' arms. In several cases, local snafus on the ground have created their own delays, not to mention dangerous and costly mistakes."
"With no federal mandate for how to administer the vaccine, it's up to the states to decide who gets the vaccine and when, creating a confusing patchwork of rules that vary greatly across the country. While some states are focused exclusively on health care workers, others have started vaccinating the elderly and other frontline workers, too."
https://www.9and10news.com/2021/01/1...s-offers-hope/
"But many states continue to struggle with the vaccine roll out. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the federal government raised expectations by expanding eligibility but didn’t follow up with the supply. And in California the new strain of the virus has been detected in several large outbreaks."
https://america.cgtn.com/2021/01/19/...ine-priorities
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued elaborate vaccine priority guidelines, but states are free to come up with their own rules and a number of them have done just that."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...es/3960344001/
"In the first major hiccup of the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, states this week found themselves scrambling to adjust as they received word they would get between 20% and 40% less vaccine next week than they had been told as late as Dec. 9."
States are demanding more vaccine as they found they were shorted expected volumes (referenced above) or they have exceeded the doses available to them.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ne-letter.html
https://www.cp24.com/world/states-lo...9963?cache=yes
https://www.wcpo.com/news/government...-vaccine-doses
https://kentuckytoday.com/stories/be...ne-doses,30156
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-new...ility-expands/
What makes things even worse, some states have been instructed to give out the doses they have and not be concerned about having enough on hand for the second dose.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/h...6-e326bc7ea801
"The Trump administration is asking states to speed delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older and to others at high risk by no longer holding back the second dose of the two-dose shots, officials said Tuesday."
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Pfizer and Moderna are only delivering about 8.5M doses a week (1.2M a day) right now and the US is administering about that many per day at this point. That will have to increase (by almost double) if they're going to meet their 200M doses by the end of March, but as long as administered doses are matching the deliveries, the bottleneck is production, like it is everywhere else in the world.
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The real problem here is the Trump administration didn't order enough vaccine to begin with. They had the opportunity and the right of first refusal and didn't do the right thing and really try to understand the larger problem. They never had a plan and as a result never developed a plan that could deal with the logistics of such a problem.
I know in our county we don't have enough vaccine on hand to vaccinate 1st responders and the elderly. We don't have enough doses to deal with demand. The state keeps asking for more, but we don't have enough. In other areas there aren't enough people and spaces available to held administer the vaccine. They are reliant on volunteers and that is holding things up. It is a logistical nightmare. This should have been a FEMA matter and then activated the National Guard to setup locations and administer the vaccinations. That would have been a real response, but under Trump it was every state for themselves, and it has been a #### show.