Last week, a county public health official in upstate New York swung by CVS after work to pick up some aspirin. In the pharmacy, he was met with a surprise.
If only all the Vaccine distribution/ scheduling logistics could have been developed, fine-tuned, and QA/QC’d concurrent with the development of the vaccine back in 2020.
Wonder why that didn’t happen…
Really, the big movement to vaccinate people is only 66 days old, and part of that time was taken up figuring out what actually was going on with the system. It’s impressive that the Biden administration ramped up shots delivered, but that meant sacrificing some of the niceties like coordination and record keeping (which the Trump administration did nothing about). And, the midst of a pandemic, with the threat of variants, isn’t the time to plan for a more complete approach to this for the future…that would have been last year while vaccines were being developed.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Biden administration had plans to improve this kind of thing going forward, but it will require Congress to pass a budget that includes funding for initiatives like this…and Congress is not very good at making long term plans for budget items that don’t have the support of specific members. It would be good to see this change, but that means getting rid of members of Congress (not only Republicans but mostly) who only think about themselves and their reelection instead of the entire nation.
And just last night Donnie said he did the opposite of what Fauci recommended.
He’s directly responsible for all those deaths.
It was Antifa, and BLM protesters that prevented it.
I mean, really, how can you make plans for saving lives while you’re forced to battle to preserve the GOD-Given right of police officers to extrajudicially execute anyone, (poor or of color), they please, anytime, for any, or no, reason?
Also impeachments. How can a President President when he’s distracted by people worrying about all his criming? There are only so many hours in a day, once you factor in golf, and all.
Multiple local public health officials around the country told TPM that while the vaccine rollout has been stunning in its speed over the past few months, they often don’t know how many federally distributed doses are going where in their own communities.
Other states’ don’t produce weekly reports showing doses allocated like Texas does?
Sooooo… All the bitching about the Feds not doing enough and leaving everything on the shoulders of the overwhelmed local health folks… Now it’s that the Feds are doing too much and should be leaving all the arrangements to the previously-claimed “overwhelmed” local health folks.
They can go fuck themselves with a rusty shovel.
Typical Congress, creating a big fucking mess where one didn’t need to be created. Since all those spouses and caregivers aren’t anywhere in the VA system, how the fuck is VA supposed to validate who they are and who is or isn’t supposed to get vaccinated by the VA. This is just going to create a mass of red tape and hassles, and probably slow the rollout within VA.
I suppose the question to ask is: does EVERYONE not know or do a few “special” people know and the rest don’t?
You Make a good point. I’m in the VA system ( just to get 10% off at Loews and Home Depot ) and no one ever asked me about my family members when I went though that goofy drill to get into that system. How would they know?
"The Feds aren’t doing enough and they’re doing it too fast!"™
That, and that VA was being allocated doses based on their population, so now you’ve possibly doubled or more what they expect (and as you point out, VA doesn’t maintain data on non-VA folks, so they’re going to have to play a guessing game of how many spouses and caregivers are out there) to need, which means more allocations to them at the cost of somewhere else in the system…
They could have left Biden alone and just let him continue doing what has been working without trying to legislate every damned detail.
Trump wasn’t interested because he hadn’t figured out a way to personally make money off of vaccines and their distribution.
So I live in one of the only three municipalities in Cook County that has its own health department. Until two weeks ago that meant we could not register for a vaccine through the Cook County Health Department. And while my municipality got and distributed vaccines for healthcare professionals and first responders, it has been much slower in vaccinating other priority groups. But to me the larger issue with our roll-out has been the lack transparency with little or no information coming out of our health department and lots of panicked speculation on social media platforms like FB. Fortunately, Cook County is now open to us and many more doses are now available.
It’s unconscionable. The possibility of their saving the lives of people we don’t care about is the hidden danger that NO ONE is talking about!
My area here is still so cocked up in distribution, I am not even bothering to schedule yet. It’s a 2-4 hours at min expedition regardless, and personally I’d rather wait for a single J&J. My situation allows pretty much 100% personal safety from covid. Others are not so lucky.
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I think the VA reaches out to a lot of Vets in the system and it seems the rest is a word of mouth there is a comments section there and the questions you pose are also addressed and answered by some,case in point one Vet says he never even heard of this.just passed two days ago. So far 133 comments there.
"Last week, a county public health official in upstate New York swung by CVS after work to pick up some aspirin. In the pharmacy, he was met with a surprise.
The CVS was distributing doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The official, who is helping oversee the area’s vaccine distribution, didn’t know that this particular pharmacy was an option for those seeking vaccination in his community.
“I’m not necessarily angry about it, but I would have appreciated having a way to know,” said the official, who requested anonymity due to the potential for reprisal."
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OK, here is my “reprisal” to this official:
https ://cvs.com/covidvaccine
CVS is where I got my first shot on March 12th. My second is due April 2nd. I am amazed a county health official is unaware of where one can find the shots. Here in Tucson for example we can get them thru our county health services dept. (a portal to 4 mass vaccination sites), local pharmacies including Walgreen’s, CVS, and from some grocery store pharmacies including Safeway/Albertson’s, Frys and others. That official needs to wake up. To use the link just remove the space after the “https”. That’s the link where I set up my appointments.