The Trump Administration said Tuesday it would release vaccine doses that it had been holding back for second inoculations and send more shots to states that are administering them faster. Thank you. This should speed up vaccinations by putting more pressure on states to relax the bureaucratic and political controls that have slowed the rollout.
“Every vaccine dose that is sitting in a warehouse rather than going into an arm could mean one more life lost or one more hospital bed occupied,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a press briefing. He’s right. Only 9.3 million of the 27.7 million vaccine doses that have been shipped to states have been administered.
Blame convoluted and rigid eligibility rules that have focused too much on “equity”—i.e., politics. Operation Warp Speed apportions doses to states, and then states decide how to allocate them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance to states on how to prioritize vaccines focuses on worker occupation, but many states have added to the morass.
New York has been one of the worst, creating a complex formula for ranking health-care employees based on underlying risk factors, age, occupation and hospital department, among other things. Many hospitals had spare vaccines because large numbers of health-care workers declined to be vaccinated. Yet state rules barred offering shots to others.
The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA shots have to be used within hours of opening vials. When hospitals and clinics had leftover shots after vaccinating everyone who wanted one, nurses often had to go on a scavenger hunt to find someone in the Governor’s top priority group. Many doses went to waste, and hundreds were left unopened on shelves.
opinion TRIBUTE TO INNOVATION? PHIZER HAS PAID OVER 3 BILLION DOLLARS IN FINES AND LAW SUITS FOR THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO INCLUDE 11 CHILDREN IN KENYA! Their vaccine is as SAFE as swimming with a hungry GREAT white shark while carrying bloody tuna on ur dive belt!MEDIA CROOKS
opinion Worldwide unfortunately...
opinion FDA approved Vioxx which was eventually taken off the market for causing death from vascular and coronary damage. Don't you remember anymore?FDA can make mistakes too.
opinion We're all really going to have to deplatform/demote The Wall Street Journal as an impartial news authority. The WSJ used to mean something - these days it holds no more pertinence than the New York Post Trash ass journalism
opinion 人民涌进白宫，制止国会做坏事。然后，民主党人制造声音，说他们是暴徒、恐怖分子。我欣赏列宁式革命。这是美国人民的一场革命运动。美国两党都是反革命者。美国已经没有民主了，没有人真正捍卫宪法。美国总统只是民主党和科技巨头的选择，而不是美国人民。
opinion It's time to stop fucking around with liberal's...it's time to destroy liberalism...conservatives need to take our country back...'violence of action, properly applied, will solve all problems...'
opinion Operation Warp Speed? Another stellar example of the potent degree of dysfunction and incompetence coming from the administration of a reality TV celebrity.
opinion mutation virus makes the masks less effective. Despite the vaccine It is urgent to react stop this pandemic. Let's equip ourselves with masks that annihilate viruses in minutes. Quickly!
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