Biden says Trump admin not administering doses of covid vaccine quickly enough, saying current pace won't get life back to normal in '21: "It's going to take years not months to vaccinate the American people."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 29, 2020
So a lot of chatter happening on the slow vaccine roll out
— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) December 29, 2020
Personally, I'm incredibly frustrated.
Did we not know that vaccines were coming? Is vaccine administration a surprise?
Several complex issues so lets break things down a bit
Warning, this is a bit of a rant
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Coronavirus vaccinations lag as hospitalizations hover near record high https://t.co/e0jHz4a5sP
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) December 29, 2020
What happens when a vaccination program is run as a logistics program by White House appointees with zero experience with vaccination? Doesn’t start well. Less than one fifth of vaccines shipped have been given. This should be the beginning of the end of the pandemic in the US.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) December 29, 2020
“The Trump administration seems to be changing its Covid vaccination targets on its way out the door,” @AliVelshi says as the Trump admin. hasn’t even come close to the 20M vaccinations promised by the end of the year. https://t.co/1McB0UPbXG
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 29, 2020
Part 1 of this piece is about the challenges of rolling out the most complicated vaccination campaign in US history.
— Ed Yong (@edyong209) December 29, 2020
Part 2 looks at the new patchwork that will arise, when some parts of the US are heavily immunized & others aren’t. 3/ https://t.co/3MwScFM7tb
Experts Say It's A Herculean Effort For Rural Hospitals To Roll Out Mass Vaccination https://t.co/UrzpGTXt5N
— NPR Health News (@NPRHealth) December 29, 2020
Some not so radical ideas for improving the vaccination process as well as offering why predicting when its your turn to get your shot is not as easy as you think https://t.co/y0z4Qx2XKb
— Kavita Patel M.D. (@kavitapmd) December 29, 2020
Read @DeanBaker13 on vaccines.
— David Dayen (@ddayen) December 22, 2020
The magnitude of this missed opportunity cannot be overstated.https://t.co/0puoWuWQUG
When I started researching this piece I was going to write why to vaccinate the elderly next (after frontline healthcare & nursing homes). But now everyone agrees on that, so the piece is more about how we got there, and our weird ideas about experts: https://t.co/HDsIJbolhe
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) December 22, 2020
Yikes. Why R endorsements are so important. https://t.co/3FVWNEhoWs
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) December 22, 2020
Sad! 