Vaccinated and Hopeful

[superjohn]

No you can't. For one there isn't that much vaccine available. But the logistics are more difficult than that. Gillette Stadium and Fenway are mass vaccination sites here in metro Boston, and Gillette will get up to 5,000 a day. There are staff on hand, and a waiting area post vaccine to handle the reactions. Most are none to minimal, some are not and some are severe. Meanwhile, you've got to distance everyone through all of that.

My mom and dad got the vaccine down in Beaufort, SC, and it was drive up. Meaning you never got out of the car. Stick your arm out the window for the shot. They did it on the local HS football field. You then parked for ten minutes in the waiting area and a nurse checked on you for adverse reactions before clearing you to leave. Distancing is completely solved in that situation. They are going faster than we are.

We aren't getting enough vaccine and we aren't getting it in arms fast enough in a lot of places. CT. was getting 50,000 doses per week from the federal gov't when they could easily vaccinate over 200,000 per week. Other states aren't using the vaccine given to them. Not enough vaccine is getting to healthcare and overall less than 60% of the doses are actually getting into arms. We're talking 1-1.5 million shots per day when we will have enough doses by the end of March to be doing around 3 million shots per day. It all needs to be sped up and more efficient.

 

[HuskyHawk]

We aren't getting enough vaccine and we aren't getting it in arms fast enough in a lot of places. CT. was getting 50,000 doses per week from the federal gov't when they could easily vaccinate over 200,000 per week. Other states aren't using the vaccine given to them. Not enough vaccine is getting to healthcare and overall less than 60% of the doses are actually getting into arms. We're talking 1-1.5 million shots per day when we will have enough doses by the end of March to be doing around 3 million shots per day. It all needs to be sped up and more efficient.

I won't argue about that. What I would say is that the worst states are those who decided to apply more draconian rules about who gets it first. That group is lead by NY, with Mass not far behind. The states that did what the UK did and simply said oldest people first, they are going much faster. That's why my parents had their shots in SC before anybody in the general population was eligible in MA. In SC, some appointments were delayed because they ran out of vaccine. In MA they had plenty of vaccine and ran out of people in the eligible classes who wanted it.

Edit: as much as we complain. Aside from Israel and UK, US leads in people vaccinated. The EU is a disaster.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

in more dense population locales,
why aren't there 24/7 vaccine places?