The Biden team’s original strategy for the pilot sites was not only to increase the number of doses going out daily across the country but also to distribute the vaccine more equitably by reaching underserved populations. Officials say the pilot vaccination sites are fulfilling that goal. As of mid-March, 65 percent of people vaccinated at the sites are “racial and ethnic minorities,” according to an internal FEMA memo obtained by POLITICO.
The federally run programs also require significant state involvement and coordination. A vaccination site in New Jersey, for example, might be run out of a local church or hospital and overseen by local officials, but it could be receiving federal funding in the way of cash, personal protective equipment or staffing. Any site in the country that receives federal assistance in some way is designated a federal site, according to two senior administration officials.
A second group of mass vaccination sites are run largely by state and local health care partners outside of the umbrella of FEMA’s pilot vaccination centers. On a normal day, the Atlantic City site doles out about 4,000 doses a day, officials there said. That’s more than the number of doses being administered at some of the pilot sites.
It is clear from comments below that there needs to be proper support for both public-sector and private-sector vaccination sites. Please stop talking about the money and focus on saving lives.
The pharmacy two blocks from me is where I usually get vaccines and where I got my COVID shots.
Problem is half the people don't know about them or where to get them. Pretty much everyone I talk to just says they checked the local supermarket or drug store for them.
Why not just use the DMV model?
Someone please explain to me why doctor’s offices can’t do this for their patients?!
I went to a mass vaccine clinic and it was great.
Don’t you mean the Harris-Biden administration?
Imagine that.
A lagging govt run system. Who would have thunk it? 😉
I got mine through Inova and my doctor's office. It was efficient and quick.
No chit
Who could have ever predicted this.
Private industry does something better than the government can I'M SHOCKED I TELL YOU....SHOCKED!
You can apply this logic to almost anything private industry does vs the government.
Vaccines in retail pharmacies 🤔 wasn’t that the Trump plan🙄
Wait, private enterprises are more efficient and less costly than government. Has that ever happened before?
Those 2 brain surgeons need to be impeached!!!!!
Who would have thought that?
Fuckin Einstein over here
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂
JJCarafano there's a lesson here somewhere
POTUS needs to keep both systems in place until mid-July although it’s expensive to do so. I got my vaccination at a government site. It was quick and I didn’t have to get out of my car. I have no plans to go into a pharmacy until I am fully vaccinated.
Saving American lives will cost no more percentage wise than it costed for Trump & family, staff, & guest unnecessary travels etc. There are communities in the U.S. w/o pharmacies some are at least 10 to 30 miles away everyone don’t own a car. Our taxes should work for us
I went to a mass vax site. It was well run. People going to pharmacies often have to drive a long distance too. I actually would prefer to get the vaccine at my doctor’s office. I do not prefer to get heslth care at the pharmacy
JerylBier So back to the Trump plan?
True leaders put a process in place, evaluate, and revise as needed before standardizing. Always to periodically review and revise.
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