Posted on 02/27/2021 11:54:13 AM PST by BeauBo
Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 96,402,290
People Receiving 1 or More Doses: 48,435,536
Receiving 2 Doses: 23,698,627
(Excerpt) Read more at covid.cdc.gov ...
Doses Delivered: 2.1 million - another big day, making the biggest weekly total yet.
People Receiving 1st Dose: 1.2 million (a good day)
People Receiving 2nd Dose: 1.1 million (a very good day - best yet)
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine should receive formal authorization (EUA) this weekend, and start shipping Monday (1 March).
Between getting 20 million more of those one shot vaccine doses, and Pfizer and Moderna ramping up to 13.5 million doses per week of the two shot vaccines, total vaccination capacity in March will double what we saw in February.
April should also see further significant expansion of supply, as both Novavax and AstraZeneca are expected to be authorized as well. Both have been contracted and funded under the Defense Procurement Act, to already be establishing their production, and both seem to have performed more than well enough in their Phase III Trials, to gain authorization. AstraZeneca is already being used in Canada, Mexico, the UK, India and elsewhere.
A relative just got signed up in Illinois using their state web site.
She is scheduled for the first shot next week.
This time she got through on the first time and was approved.
She has to bring proof of her age and a photo ID. Her driver’s license is all that she needs.
Photo ID?? Racist.
POOR PLANNING ON HOW TO STOP VACCINE LINE-JUMPERS
CALIFORNIA FOCUS
FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021, OR THEREAFTER
BY THOMAS D. ELIAS
“POOR PLANNING ON HOW TO STOP VACCINE LINE-JUMPERS”
There was a wide sense of relief when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the other day that people aged 16 to 65 who suffer from certain severe underlying health conditions will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting on the Ides of March.
Starting March 15, if you’re in a wheelchair, on a walker, need oxygen, take immune-suppressing anti-rejection drugs to preserve an organ transplant, suffer from coronary artery disease or heart failure or deal with chronic kidney or lung disease – you can sign up to get either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines shot in your arm.
State health officials estimate this will add between 4 million and 6 million folks to the list of those eligible for shots – between 10 percent and 15 percent of all Californians. Overall, about half the populace will then be entitled to inoculations.
That’s good, if supplies arrive. But planning for this phase has been less than good. In fact, the start of this new phase of the vaccine rollout figures to be about as confused as the opening of Phase 2, when people over 65 joined health workers on the eligibility list.
Back then – only about six weeks ago– Newsom proclaimed over-65s could begin getting shots and some grocery-based drugstores began Internet signups. But when those people turned up for appointments the next day, almost all were turned away. It developed there was no coordination between state and county health departments, so the drugstores could not give shots. This bait-and-switch affected tens of thousands of seniors. It wasn’t fixed until days later, a few hours after this column reported what happened.
At the time there were no mass drive-through vaccination centers. There were few places to get vaccinated. The situation began to improve when some large testing sites quickly converted to giving shots.
The planning flaw for the newest large expansion of the eligibility pool is different, affecting verification rather than availability – especially with more large centers opening across California.
What’s undetermined now is how the soon-to-be-eligible will prove it. Most diabetics and folks with transplants don’t carry special IDs. Neither do heart attack veterans or kidney patients.
In helping Newsom announce the new eligibility categories, state Health Secretary Mark Ghaly said his agency would spend the next four weeks figuring out what kind of verification would be used to keep imposters from jumping the line and getting vaccines long before their turn, along with the freedom and feeling of health security this brings.
Like the confusion leading to the bait-and-switch of late January and the overloaded Web-based sign-up sites that followed, this problem was easy to anticipate.
The real question is what health officials at both state and county levels were doing all fall, while awareness grew that coronavirus vaccines were about to arrive. Like most people, they knew that while some skeptics would refuse or delay getting vaccinated, the vast majority of Californians would eagerly accept the shots.
In fact, the jabs quickly became the hottest commodity going. Planning for the phase-in was an obvious need, even while officials were also occupied with imposing shutdowns, lockdowns, masking, distancing and other anti-pandemic measures.
But it did not happen, as was made clear by Ghaly’s admission that the state will develop seat-of-pants rules for folks to prove they are among the newly eligible. Will they need notes from their doctors, a la grammar school kids? Will their providers have to devise and hand out special cards to prove they have the conditions they claim?
None of this will be much of a problem for patients at some of the state’s largest health care systems which did the requisite planning and possess the needed patient information. In the earlier phases, people regularly cared for by the UC Health system, the Providence hospital system and a few others were notified of their eligibility and invited via email to sign up for appointments. They’ll be OK in the new phase, too.
Millions more will not have this benefit. They have no idea what documents, if any, they’ll need once they can start vaccination signups.
It’s a plain dereliction of duty by Newsom’s administration, which knew this was coming but did not plan for it.
Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It” is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net
Posted by California Focusat 7:28 AM
http://www.californiafocus.net/2021/02/poor-planning-on-how-to-stop-vaccine.html
Yep!
“This time she got through (to schedule a vaccine shot)”
Now is the time to check. The recent surge in deliveries is going to open up a lot of appointments, all around the country.
Demand is still greater than supply though, so they will probably fill up quickly.
End of Month Update Ping.
Vaccine supply ramping up bigly in March (doubling capacity), and expanding again in April.
We are on track to get over the bulk of vaccinations needed for those over 65 years old during April, and start opening up availability more for the general adult population.
I have a walker. I do not need it. may sell it for big$$$ to cut the line. :-)
Anybody who is in a hurry just needs to head to the bad part of town.
Blacks and Latinos are shunning the vax.
When my wife and I got ours in the ‘hood there was a big crew of health workers and just a handful of people getting the shots.
Plenty of armed security too, I felt no worry.
Lots of shots being administered in Chicago => http://www.heyjackass.com
Rent it out by the half hour.
“I have a walker. I do not need it. may sell it for big$$$ to cut the line. :-)”
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Jeez... I knew there was a reason I hung onto the walker I got while rehabbing from knee replacement surgery.
Covid is a LIE, it is a HOAX, it is the FLU!!!!
Contrary to media reports, COVID-19 vaccines do cause a paralyzing facial condition
Saturday, February 27, 2021 by: News Editors
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-02-27-covid-19-vaccines-caused-paralyzing-facial-condition.html
Photo ID?? Racist.
Only when one is trying to illegally vote in our 57 states as per Obama.
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