“The states have been slow to roll it out.”
And some dosing has been sent elsewhere for reasons unknown.
In Washington State, where I live, population is 7,656,200. Currently they have administered 4% of the need with front line health staff being first, estimated at half a million people. That means that 306,248 first receivers have been inoculated or just around 61% of those. And now it is determined that the state is going to be getting 40% less vaccine and Moderna has had problems with allergic reactions from injections they are investigating in California they are saying from a specific batch.
And they’re going to get how many done in a year, two, three....? AT 4% every month as the vaccine was started in the third week of December, simple math says they will be able to complete 100% of the state in a little over 2 years with Washington State’s population if they find nothing seriously wrong with the vaccines during that time (like in California) and/or don’t run out, or have parts of their supply shanghaied for greater population states.
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California didn't find anything wrong. 6 healthcare workers at one facility showed apparent allergic reactions to one specific lot of Moderna's vaccine. The state then said that "out of an extreme abundance of caution", doses from that one specific lot should be held until an investigation is complete to ensure that one particular lot has nothing wrong with it. Based on 6 people having an allergic reaction.
This is California being California; not some major issue with any vaccine. Over 42 million doses have been distributed worldwide including over 14 million in the US alone. The Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19 is 0.65%. If you gave COVID-19 to 14.3 million Americans, 92,950 would die. As of January 6th, CDC recorded 21 serious reactions out of 1,893,360 doses given. That's 0.001% or 1 in 90,160. All 21 people were treated and released. They're alive and well.
Your chances of getting struck by lighting are 1 in 15,300. Nearly 6 times more likely than you getting a serious reaction from the COVID-19 vaccines available today.