[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by opendoor

If everything you're saying is true, and places are all out of vaccine and there are no deliveries on the horizon, how are there 1M+ vaccinations per day throughout the country? And how are weekly vaccinations roughly matching the number of weekly delivered doses on the CDC site I linked? That would be impossible if the doses weren't ending up in the states' hands in regular intervals.

I think the numbers aren't accurate. Just like the numbers weren't accurate for diagnosis of COVID related infections I think the numbers may not be 100% accurate. I would wait and see if they change with the Biden admin in place and the whether the CDC is given free reign to report information. Let's not forget they were muzzled by the Trump admin because they were making him look bad. I can only tell you what is being observed on the ground.

If what you're saying is true, vaccination numbers in the coming days will drop to almost nothing, are you really expecting that to happen? Or do you think they'll stay around 1M per day or even scale up? I'd bet on the latter.

See above. The numbers don't jive. Maybe the states that are lagging behind will keep the numbers afloat or maybe they are just straight up fudged. I would think that once more vaccine gets into the system those numbers will scale up. I know Arizona has capacity to do more, but is out of vaccine in many places. Listening to neighboring states I think they are in similar situations. Things are changing hour-by-hour and most of it not for the good.

The Pfizer interval in the trial was 19-42 days; if they had no problem going up to 42 days and their trial showed no difference in efficacy with those intervals, then potentially (and only potentially) extending the interval to that length in the event of supply disruptions is a completely logical thing to do. Obviously you aim for the recommended dosing interval whereever possible. And with the US's robust and predictable supply, that shouldn't be an issue even if states don't hold all of their 2nd doses in storage.

You're correct, I misspoke. The earliest sample that had the B.1.1.7 variant was from September so the mutation occurred prior that point, though it wasn't identified as a variant of concern until December.

No worries. I don't want to get into an argument over efficacy of vaccine x versus vaccine y, and which interval is going to provide the greatest benefit as it is not my area of expertise. My comments are directly from the experts who are on site doing the administration of the vaccine. I listen to what they tell people and they they are adamant in telling people to return on a specific day and do not delay in getting the booster. I'm not going to go against someone who is doing this stuff and has the instructions from the feds. You could be right, but this is not the information being shared in our community or recipients of the vaccine. It just pisses me off because I have had to wait to get mine (right thing to do) and we have the capacity to meet the demand.