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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I have been paying attention to the papers I read and trying to get some sense of where the vaccine is. I haven't had any success.
- - Pfizer says it has some vaccine in storage that the US hasn't requested yet
- - The US says it has delivered all that the States have requested
- - The States say it's a supply problem and they can't get any more from the US
- - Some statistics show 40M doses shipped but only 19M used
- - I think I remember a promise of 100M doses by the end of December. Even if that was later reduced to 50M it still leaves the question of where are the doses promised for December and where are the doses manufactured in the last three weeks?
- - Some articles say a large number of the doses that have been provided to CVS and Walgreens for nursing homes have not yet been used
- - GMR seemed to claim they had a source for 90,000 doses - those doses fell through soon after the news conference
- - I believe I saw today that Florida expected to receive 266,000 doses this week. That may sound like a lot but when divided among the 70ish counties in the State with Sumter being somewhere in the middle it works out to few doses for us.
I have to believe a product with as much visibility as the vaccine would be tracked very closely. Amazon can tell me whether that pair of socks I ordered is in the warehouse or on the truck or on my doorstep. I am skeptical that no one knows which ultra-low temperature freezers are holding 20M doses of this very valuable product. |
Good things are finally in our future in this issue.