President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Tuesday plans to move up a deadline that would require states to open eligibility up to almost two weeks sooner, allowing all Americans adults to have access to a coronavirus vaccine by April 19.
It’s past time for this. The most critical who want to be vaccinated have been at this point. What we are seeing here outside the big cities is vaccines being distributed while telling 70% of the population they are not eligible. So appoints sit unused.
Open up to everyone and lets this over
This is what happens when the adults are in charge.
That is good news, it might be in time to dampen the latest surge caused by red state morons and others who just can’t wait another month to open up.
Not sure where you are, but here in Massachusetts, we’ve got a very different scenario – more and more eligibility, but at the same time such difficulty landing appointments that there are groups of volunteers popping up to help eligible people get a shot anywhere near where they live.
It’s nice to have a plan.
The Art of The Really BFD.
Promises made, promises … exceeded!!
WA says April 15 for those over 16, but you’re on your own to find an appointment…
Also, WA keeps expanding who is eligible under tier 1 of recovery, to the extent of adding subtiers (1A, 1B, not sure if there is 1C yet) but no counties are getting to tier 2 or 3 of recovery
MA is much more urban where demand outstrips supply. This as a logistical problem solved by moving more vaccines from low demand areas. Except continued rationing distorts demand. Until we remove restrictions that have now become obsolete and a barrier to higher population vaccination, we can’t know the demand in areas outside of cities. And until we know real demand, it is hard to move excess doses from rural to urban areas.
Lift the restrictions, measure unrestricted demand and then move doses where they are needed. It’s time.
AZ, as long as you are willing to drive a ways, has been pretty good on the vax front, at least here in Maricopa county. I got my second vax on March 3, and my wife (who is 62 and was not eligible immediately) got her second last night at midnight at the State Farm football stadium, 30 miles from us. My daughter and her husband (in their 30s) have both received their first and are scheduled for their second.
My wife is flying to Michigan in May for a visit and my daughter and her husband have scheduled a trip to Disneyland for October. In 2 weeks, we plan to go to the movies and start frequenting our favorite local restaurants again. Also, and this is surprising to me a little, I have seen widespread compliance with masks and social distancing even though the governor has basically dropped most government mandated precautions.
The saddest case in our immediate family (besides my wife’s only brother dying from COVID a few months ago), is an anti-vax sister-in-law of my daughter’s who is refusing the vax for herself and her 18 year old son who is at high risk due to congenital heart defects. He told my daughter recently that he thinks he may just go get it on his own - he is 18.
We actually seem to be settling into some kind of normalcy despite pockets of insanity here and there. I have been devoting a lot of my time to lining up appointments for my elderly friends who are not very computer savvy.
The Democrats are saving us from ourselves and FOX. Never forget.
Tx is already open even some of my grandkids have gotten the shot. 3 more on the list and if they ok Phizer for 12 and older could be 5. That leaves 4 grade schooler left.
I don’t disagree with your logic at all, but for whatever it’s worth, much of Massachusetts is quite rural. Where I live, it’s all farms and hills. I think what we’re seeing here is simply a population, urban or rural, that wants the vaccine. There is some vaccine skepticism, but those are the voices crying in the wilderness.
April 19th is “Bicycle Day”!
Shout out to Dr. Albert Hoffman and Sandoz Laboratories!
It’s also when I get my second shot at Microsoft HQ. Hoping for a chip upgrade!
You can’t say enough about the national-level work being done. Biden’s put together an absolutely kick-ass team. If I have a complaint about my county board of health it’s that if they’re going to use graphics in the process for forms and security verification it would be really groovy if the damn images were done by IT people sophisticated enough to make them work on all platforms and over networks without display and printing issues. 
Idaho is making vaccinations available to everyone 16 and up as of today (April 6).
I’m scheduled for my second Pfizer poke in two days. So far, everyone I know who’s wanted the shot has been able to get at least the first one, or has already successfully scheduled an appointment.
I think part of the reason for the high availability is the outsized number of Northern Idaho idiots who are now calling the vaccine “the mark of the beast”, among other bizarre excuses for going anti-vax on this one…
They strike me as ridiculously medieval in their attitudes. Humanity’s best… 
I’m getting mine Friday.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving asshole.
And just think … this acceleration in both vaccine manufacture and distribution was accomplished without an all-caps tweet.