I’m not sure if you read the news but college age kids are the lowest on the priority scale for vaccines and probably won’t get shots until later this summer.If they were completely immune by mid Feb doesn’t that change things? Assuming all other teams were the same. Wouldn’t that stop cancellations and shutdowns? Coaches and staff would need theirs also.
Is that the prioritization schedule in CT? In MA my college aged kids are getting it before me.I’m not sure if you read the news but college age kids are the lowest on the priority scale for vaccines and probably won’t get shots until later this summer.
Summer and fall? I thought everyone was scheduled to be vaccinated by June?COVID-19 2023 Update – Ending of the Public Health Emergency
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Really? That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s a recognition that college age kids become a transmission risk based upon their traveling to and from school and placing a higher priority on socializing than social distancing.Is that the prioritization schedule in CT? In MA my college aged kids are getting it before me.
No they are notIs that the prioritization schedule in CT? In MA my college aged kids are getting it before me.
He is wrong. College kids fall under the general public, which is last. Unless his kids are prison, then yes, they are top priority in Mass.Really? That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s a recognition that college age kids become a transmission risk based upon their traveling to and from school and placing a higher priority on socializing than social distancing.
My kids told me that. I didn't even look it up. It's always a bad idea to listen to what your kids say. ? We are all in the general public. Hoping by June. ?He is wrong. College kids fall under the general public, which is last. Unless his kids are prison, then yes, they are top priority in Mass.
Summer and fall? I thought everyone was scheduled to be vaccinated by June?
Or until Bouknight is back. Whichever comes first. ?In lieu of no recent events whatsoever, our team should receive the 1st dosage of the vaccine and pause all games for the 4 weeks it takes until the 2nd dosage.
They aren't in prison. Yet. ? J/KHe is wrong. College kids fall under the general public, which is last. Unless his kids are prison, then yes, they are top priority in Mass.
Exactly, and people are not going to be jumping ahead for the vaccine just because of their occupation anymore once the first responders are all taken care of. For example Lebron James will be vaccinated at the same time another 36 year old high school gym teacher can get it. Professional athletes don’t get special treatment just because they are famous. At least that’s how I think it’s supposed to workI’m not sure if you read the news but college age kids are the lowest on the priority scale for vaccines and probably won’t get shots until later this summer.
Where do you teach? On Wednesday, we were able to start scheduling our first dose.“Coming weeks” since early December for me as a teacher
Getting my shot Tues. in CT lost my hoops eligibility 55 years ago. I don’t even know if the vaccine for the follow up dose will be in supply.My kids told me that. I didn't even look it up. It's always a bad idea to listen to what your kids say. ? We are all in the general public. Hoping by June. ?
Where do you teach? On Wednesday, we were able to start scheduling our first dose.
I was able to schedule my vaccination for this week as I am a part of group 1b. However my school district sent a notice that group 1b has 1.3 million people and the state is currently vaccinating about 46,000 people a week, so it could take 7 months to work through just this group. I have not fully verified this info but it was sent out to all staffThat's probably about right. Over a million people a day are currently getting vaccinated. It should rise to over two million a day eventually. And since folks under 18 years of age are not in the vaccine pool that means we need to vaccinate about 220 million folks. We already have vaccinated 12 million and 14 million more are immune because they have recovered from the virus. The math is with your prediction of June.
My son goes to a small liberal arts school and they have been trying to secure the vaccine so they can give it to their students. They had a bubble in the fall semester and are trying to do the same in the spring. Students can't go off campus and no visitors allowed. They're not trying to "jump the line" but rather they don't want their students going off campus and most kids live far away so they figure this is the easiest way to get everyone vaccinated in a timely fashion and most safely. Makes a lot of sense.There's an argument to be made that distribution to college campuses should come early in the general public phase. Many schools have their own infrastructure to administer vaccines, so it'd be a good chunk of the population the state would not have to worry about administering the "last mile delivery." Instead, they can allocate and deliver the doses then be done and devote that last mile delivery capacity elsewhere.
For instance, up here in Boston both BU and Northeastern have infrastructure in place already to vaccinate the entire campus. That'd be ~100K people the state wouldn't have to worry about. Of course, those doses shouldn't be delivered until the general population has access. But at that point, in the interest of doing the most good to the public, a quick and seamless administration of hundreds of thousands of doses maximizes the public good.