How Have Our Soaring Vendors Fared?

Everybody's going to bitch about priorities that don't have them high on the list or don't comport with their sense of what's important. I think we've pretty quickly gotten to a place where the goal is to try to get it to older folks (especially in group homes) and some combination of folks with super high rates of exposure and potential to be spreaders. No one's going to agree on that at the micro-level so expect the usual sniping and inevitable politicization from people who see everything through a red/blue lens. The big change I've seen is the shift to a "use every dose" approach where there are outlets to administer unused doses before they expire - with much looser prioritization criteria. Some of that will be just having a continuous flow to vaccination centers where you ave long lines of people who are willing to be a ready arm to receive a stick. That seems like a pretty good method to drive up dose utilization - there are almost always people willing to stand in line.

I still don't get the Fauci thing. Maybe some more CAPS LOCK comments will make it clear.

;-)

9B

Hope our soaring vendors get vaccinated early - back to the original post.



On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7:07:00 AM UTC-8, kinsell wrote:
On 1/14/21 1:56 AM, Andy Blackburn wrote:
Tom - you need to go easier on your CAPS LOCK key or you're going to break it.

QAnon and Breitbart conspiracy theory stories notwithstanding the actual priorities for administering vaccines are set by state public health organizations, in some cases based on guidelines set by CDC (not NIH, where Fauci works). There is a committee (AICP) appointed by the HHS Secretary that makes the recommendation. I checked, Fauci isn't on it. Here's the link: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/members/index.html

Certainly the CDC over-estimated the ability of the supply chain - particularly at the state level - to manage administering vaccines based on a complex prioritization scheme. But never fear, the incoming Biden administration is pushing (even before taking office) to set aside the priorities to ensure the that every dose get used on someone. So, more competent management is on the way with a more sensible approach - led by (drum roll) Anthony Fauci.

Oh the irony.

In Colorado, we have one of the best rates of injections given, yet less
than half have been administered. Our great governor, bluer than a
Smurf, constantly gives press conferences where he keeps saying the
vaccination rate is entirely paced by vaccine supply.

He's constantly changing the priority list, exactly two days after shots
started being given to highest risk people in nursing homes, he opened
it up to 'essential journalists', teachers, postal workers, and others.
Now it turns out, low level legislative assistants like millennial
clerks and secretaries have already been given shots, when the over 70
crowd is just starting to get theirs.

So is it Trump's fault we have a lying idiot for a governor here? BTW,
after all the preaching about masks and washing hands, our great
governor came down with the 'Rona himself.