Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday that the general adult population in the U.S. will have access to the COVID-19 vaccine by mid-2021.
OK, Azar says that vaccine will be widely available mid-2021 so there is no way in hell that is going to happen.
Right, and as soon as we all get the vaccine all will return to being normal. Notice the timeline for people to receive the vaccine keeps being pushed back. Weāll wait, itās not going to be normal by mid-2021 warp speed or not.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday that the general adult population in the U.S. that is still alive will have access to the COVID-19 vaccine by mid-2021.
Fixed.
Itās too bad that the Trump administration has done such a horrible job that we canāt trust what they are saying.
With that said, the predictions on vaccine production fit with most people having access by summer, though there are a lot of steps in the process still to work out completely. Itās not clear how much work is left to do to make this happenā¦it is being worked on but weāre not hearing a lot. We can hope that the professionals are doing their jobs and pushing things along, and that the politicians in the administration are staying out of the way.
When the Biden administration takes over, weāll be able to trust what is said again, and weāll find out if the Trump administration left any landmines that hamper the vaccine distribution next year. Letās hope they donāt mess with that at least, they are screwing with everything else in the transition to make Bidenās start as rough as possible.
Azar is known for his word.
I wonāt be making any plans.
He laid out a timeline, but not an actual distribution plan which is where the rubber meets the road. So Iām still waiting for them to refute (beyond a mere denial) the Biden Administrationās assertion that they may not have one.
Pfft! Wishful, best of the best case scenarios, weāll have it two weeks, thinking.
āThe vaccine race now is not a race out of the lab. Itās a race to the patient,ā he says. And the most successful vaccines, Townley says, will be those made by the companies that pay the most attention to the last mile of the race.
That last mile ā the vaccineās journey from, say, centralized distribution centers to clinics and finally to patients ā isnāt a measure of distance. Itās a pothole-strewn maze of regulations and supply chains that companies must navigate to get their vaccine distributed, eventually to almost every person on the planet.
The magnitude and intensity of the task ahead is unprecedented, Townley says. āIt is the largest product launch in the history of humankind.ā
Such freezers are just one link in a ācold chainā needed to keep the vaccines fresh and effective. But the chain is fragile. The World Health Organization estimates that about 2.8 million doses of vaccines were lost in five countries in 2011 because the cold chain was broken. That includes losses in countries such as Nigeria, where 41 percent of refrigerators were nonfunctional, and Ethiopia, which had about 30 percent of its cold-chain equipment go kaput. Losing millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines could be disastrous for getting a handle on the pandemic.
Schwartz, the vaccination policy researcher at the Yale, and his colleagues took virus spread into account when making their calculations. If things keep going as they have in the past few weeks, with more than 150,000 new coronavirus cases and about 1,500 deaths ā about one every minute ā reported daily in the United States, vaccine distribution would need to move lightning fast to prevent millions more deaths. āIf weāre at that [high level of transmission], even a highly effective vaccine will struggle to make a dent in the trajectory of the pandemic,ā Schwartz says.
4th Q. Next year or later.
ETA.
Keeping track of who got vaccinated, which vaccine they got ā both doses need to come from the same company ā and when people are due for a second dose is another potentially daunting logistical challenge. Databases used to manage patient data or to order and ship medical supplies arenāt well integrated among vaccine providers and local, state and federal government agencies, which could lead to confusion, says Pouria Sanae, chief executive of ixlayer, a company that provides logistics services for COVID-19 testing and vaccination centers. Existing databases may need to be beefed up and given new ways of managing information, he says.
I was about to ask whether anyone was believing this.
It will happen, but not under his leadership. Bidenās team will be working at warp speed to ensure distribution of any and all product as it is released and available.
It wonāt have any connection to what these knuckleheads have done.
Is there a reason to believe anything Alex Azar says?
Well, that will reduce the number of doses required. Man, they are brilliant!!!
āMy expectation is that next year we return to normalcy in our lives thanks to the incredible work of Operation Warp Speed and these vaccines,ā the Trump official added.
Here Azar ignores that fact that we would be at least half-way back to normal by now if the president were not a useless mound of orangutan excrement.
Because goddamn football is more important than education.
XPO Logistics will be awarded the contract on 1/19/2021.
I am in the 65+ category but I am not holding my breath. My bet is that I wonāt get it until Fall. In the meantime, my wife and I are lucky in that we donāt have to go out in public. Keep those masks and sanitizers handy folks, we have another year before this is behind us.
Donāt know how much more there was to the interview, but right then would have been a good time to say, āBut until everyone has had the vaccine and we see that the coronavirus has been eliminated (if that even happens), everyone should wear a mask when out in public, social distance, wash your hands frequently, and take all precautions suggested by your state and local health authorities and Dr. Faucci. Donāt listen to Trump, but listen to and follow the advice of the Biden administration both before and after they take office.ā
Yes. Good advice for us, the non Trumpers. I fear the Trumpers will continue their scoflaw ways, thereby superspreading the virus slowing down our recovery.
Well, donāt forget, the federal government changes hands on January 20th. Perhaps Azar knows how much better Biden will do than Trump ever has?
Operation Warp Speed commenced on 5-15-20.
Had the Trump Administration started it on 2-15-20 instead of downplaying the crisis then we should have had a vaccine by March 2021.
There is no reason for the Trump Administration to brag about a vaccine.
A few years ago I ordered some cabinets and related stuff from Ikea, for the laundry room in the basement. XPO Logistics was the carrier designated to deliver my order. They were late, emailed repeatedly to say they would be there soon, never showed up, then lied about it.