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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
They should have contracted the whole thing to private industry and it would have run much more smoothly.
Companies like Walgreens and CVS would have done a much better job.
Letting all these different parts of Fed and State govt get involved makes a mess out of distribution
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The last I saw was that the manufacturers were shipping about 975000 doses per day ramping up to a million or more does per day by the end of the month. They are then shipped via UPS, FEDX etc to the states. I’m not sure what the allocation is by state, but once it reaches the states it is up to the state to get it into the arms of the people. It was felt by the prior administration that the states would be better able to determine the unique circumstances of their own states. The problem is some states are far more efficient at getting the shots to the people. In certain states like FL, they are more efficient and thus supply does no keep up with demand. In some states’ there is vaccine sitting in cold storage units because they cannot, for whatever reason, get it into peoples arms. I have to disagree with you regarding using Walgreens and CVS to do the shots, they are not equipped to handle this. When you try to make an appointment with them they schedule one shot every ten to fifteen minutes. Doing this it will take forever to vaccinate everyone. Once there is enough supply, they need to set up mass vaccination sites like stadiums, fire stations, convention centers etc. In Massachusetts one of the mass vaccination sites is Gillette stadium where the New England Patriots play. This is the only way you will be able to vaccinate people fast enough to make a difference. In The Villages, you could use the Polo grounds, the football stadium, the softball fields, the fire stations etc. I can remember in the 70’s, I’m not sure what flu it was, but they vaccinated people at the schools. You got in line and they were giving shots at the rate of one every ten or fifteen seconds not minutes. You get two or three lines going that’s a lot of shots every day. That’s the way to vaccinate people in a pandemic, not at your local drug stores.