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SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] State demandsed socialist Social Warrior Bullshit
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From hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Sun Jan 17 12:12:11 2021 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (www2.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.82]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395C0163F54; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:12:08 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Delivered-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Received: from [10.0.0.62] (www.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.83]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF84163F54; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:12:02 -0500 (EST) To: "Wuhan(COVID)-19 Discussion and Medical Professionals" , Hangout From: Ruben Safir Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:11:02 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en-US Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] State demandsed socialist Social Warrior Bullshit is throttling vacicne usage and fucking everyone X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30rc1 Precedence: list List-Id: NYLXS Tech Talk and Politics List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Errors-To: hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Sender: "Hangout"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccines-are-getting-stuck-at-the-las= t-step-11610892001?mod=3Dhp_lead_pos7 Covid-19 Vaccines Are Getting Stuck at the Last Step Elizabeth Findell, Jared S. Hopkins and Dan Frosch 9-11 minutes
In South Texas, a man slept in his car for two nights straight so he wouldn=92t lose his place in a line of hundreds of people at a mass-vaccination event. In Western Kentucky, residents registered for vaccination slots online, only to find when they arrived that their doses had been taken by walk-ins. In New Mexico, state officials scrambled to hire more people to staff a vaccination hotline after it was overwhelmed with callers.
The biggest challenges in America=92s Covid-19 vaccination effort have turned out to be getting shots into the arms of the right people. As of Friday morning, some 31 million vaccine doses had been distributed nationwide, but only about 12 million had been administered, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The federal government shipped those doses to states around the country, with states establishing their own criteria for who should get the vaccine first. But it has been up to local health departments, hospitals and other providers to actually manage the tangle of logistics and many have been unable to do so effectively.
Motorists waited in lines Friday to get vaccinated at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, among the country=92s mass vaccination sites. Photo: Ringo Chiu/Zuma Press
The result is an erratic and disjointed process that is causing frustration and confusion around the country.
Jeff Duchin, public health officer for Seattle and King County, Wash., said the federal government succeeded in helping fund and purchase vaccines that were developed in record-breaking time, but said it didn=92t do nearly enough to ensure that the =93last-mile=94 distribution efforts would be successful.
=93Operation Warp Speed gave us two Cadillac vaccines with empty gas tanks,=94 he said.
Dr. Duchin said that while the county set up four clinics, it has been difficult to link health-care workers unaffiliated with hospitals to providers giving shots. Officials are currently planning two large-scale vaccination sites, he said, which are complicated to organize but are the most effective way to vaccinate teachers, transit workers, police and the general public. If everyone needs to schedule individual appointments, =93we=92ll never get there,=94 Dr. Duchin said.
Confusion is only increasing as many states move from immunizing health-care workers and nursing-home residents to people over 65 years old or with pre-existing conditions. California, Texas and Arizona are among states initiating mass vaccination sites in locations such as sports stadiums.
Providers across the country said they have thus far received little guidance for how to implement eligibility criteria, no funding to manage staffing and planning and no indication of how many doses they will receive at any time. Oscar Alleyne, chief program officer for the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said long lines and jammed phones show how responsibility was thrown on local officials without preparation.
=93Most are struggling,=94 he said. =93There is a lack of communication, a lack of understanding with the systems that have been developed, zero visibility into how the state plans are going to be implemented on the local front.=94
Health officials said they hoped $8 billion in a recent stimulus package passed by the federal government would help local departments that have been underfunded for years. President-elect Joe Biden outlined a plan on Friday that includes federally supported community vaccination centers, mobile clinics to reach underserved populations, funding for more public-health workers and reimbursing states for deploying the National Guard to distribute doses.
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Health officials with the Barren River District Health Department in Bowling Green, Ky., were looking at new software systems for scheduling appointments in mid-December when they found out doses were coming, forcing a quick choice, said Janarae Conway, disaster preparedness director. =93We really did not have time to test it,=94 she said.
Administrators allowed the system to keep accepting online appointments after they had printed out a schedule, resulting in people showing up to see their slots were given away to walk-ins.
New Mexico secretary of health-designate Tracie Collins said her department was hiring more personnel after people recently couldn=92t get through on phone lines when the state expanded eligibility to those over age 75. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
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Texas state Rep. Vikki Goodwin said that after the state granted eligibility to anyone over 65 on Dec. 28, her constituents rushed to call grocery stores and pharmacies for appointments only to be told there weren=92t enough doses for that yet.
=93It=92s crazy that people have to call around to see what different providers have the vaccine, rather than having a central place,=94 Ms. Goodwin said. =93People are thinking that we had months and months to prepare for this.=94
Meanwhile, due to issues with Texas=92s provider-approval system, some rural hospitals haven=92t gotten vaccines for front-line health-care workers, according to the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals.
In South Texas=92s Rio Grande Valley, Rolando Zarate, a 54-year-old diabetic, stocked his pickup with blankets and food before rushing to beat others to a mass-vaccination event. He received a shot after waiting 30 hours.
=93I have been, like most of the country, worried about [Covid-19] for nine months,=94 Mr. Zarate said. =93I said, I don=92t care how long I have = to wait.=94
People waited in line to receive vaccine in Tucson, Ariz. Photo: Cheney Orr/Bloomberg News
The disorganization has resulted in some people who aren=92t eligible getting vaccines through luck. When Seyward Darby saw a healthy, early-30s friend in Washington, D.C., post on Instagram that he had received one, she asked how. He said he had been picking up Hot Pockets to eat in Safeway when the store announced it had extra doses it needed to use, she said.
With limited guidance from states beyond the rules on who is eligible and limited resources for outreach, vaccine providers are in some cases not reaching everyone in the surrounding community, prompting concerns about health equity.
Ruben Becerra, the elected executive of Hays County, south of Austin, said some providers are focused on their own patients, excluding people without primary-care doctors.
=93Some facilities have said =91Well, you need to have a relationship with us and we need to do an assessment before we give you the vaccine,=92=94 he said.
In Washington, D.C., Dana Mueller, director of adult and family medicine at Mary=92s Center, said the district has been submitting lists of people who signed up to get vaccines to the health center 24 hours in advance=97not enough time for staff to set up an automated reminder call system. That has led to confusion over when people are supposed to show up and whether they have confirmed slots, Dr. Mueller said.
=93It=92s still very localized,=94 Dr. Mueller said. =93It=92s the small-sc= ale effort that makes it feel like you=92re going to be vaccinating people for years.=94
Write to Elizabeth Findell at Elizabeth.Findell-at-wsj.com, Jared S. Hopkins at jared.hopkins-at-wsj.com and Dan Frosch at dan.frosch-at-wsj.com
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