The rollout of this fall’s COVID vaccine has been frustrating. When CDC authorized the COVID shots for everyone 6 months and older on Sept. 12, the expectation was they’d be available within days. That hasn’t proven to be the case. Instead, appointments seem readily available, only to be canceled at the last minute; surprise bills for vaccines touted as free abound; and the littlest children seem left out altogether.
So what has gone wrong? A confluence of factors, some clearly avoidable. For one, pharmacies seem to have flubbed scheduling, allowing people to sign up when either shots or pharmacists weren’t available. The pandemic offered Americans a rare glimpse of a world where vaccines could be distributed efficiently and access is relatively simple — the shots had one distributor , were free for everyone at every site, regardless of insurance, and, for the initial rounds of boosters at least, were generally widely available within days of being authorized. Now, we’re back to our old, too often clunky system.
Parents’ urgency comes as hospitalizations from COVID hit a recent peak. And while children are at low risk of the most serious outcomes of the disease, parents worry their kids will get the virus before the vaccine is finally available.
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