late spring to summer 2021. No kidding. Michigan HD announced distribution outline today.
They have the vaccines by the end of this week. They will wait until 12/28/2021 before the critical need people can get it (ex healthcare workers) because we have to respect the state unions holiday time.
Then, by sometime in early summer, the general public will start to receive what has been fully prepared, tested, and pre-manufactured in adequate mass quantities thanks to President Trump's Operation Warp Speed.
The Dems literally do not want this shut down to end...it's side effects run parallel to their political goals - higher unemployment of small businesses and its workers means more wards of the state moving quickly toward socialism, less carbon footprint - much less car travel and air travel by the commoners, and curtailing of civil liberties and religious practice which they loath.
Chris94 actually had the audacity to claim that Trump's leadership cost us lives to the epidemic. Well Chris, the vaccine is there to be used by all. If Trump were incharge, we would all have it by the end of January. It is the governors who have the power to make the majority of these decisions - and it has been the Dems who have been making the lethal moves like putting infectious patients back into nursing homes or like this one of delaying vaccination.
vaccines require two doses per person...let's assume that we get to ~75% of the U.S. population vaccinated...that's ~250M people, or 500M doses (btw, I acknowledge that other vaccines will come on line and only require one dose (but with lower efficacy (e.g. ~60-70%))...
From the linked article (dated 12/3/2020)...
"Operation Warp Speed Chief Operating Officer Gus Perna has said that the U.S. will distribute 40 million vaccine doses total by the end of the year, enough for 20 million people."
So that's 40M/mo. from Pfizer...now add Moderna at a similar production rate (an assumption)...we're up to 80M/mo...forgetting other vaccines for the moment, that equates to 6 months to vaccinate 75% of the U.S. population...we'll certainly do better, I'm sure, but let's not forget that Pfizer ran into critical supply issues which could happen again, and not just for them...that 6 months takes us to 'Late Spring' and possibly 'Early Summer' to get the necessary 75% vaccinated.
More and better data will be coming weekly, if not daily, so timelines will change...but at the moment, a conservative estimate of reaching the crucial 75% target is not February...it's more like May or June...and brace for it....possibly September. Let's all pray that doesn't happen.
Let's also remember that we are dealing with a Worldwide Pandemic...Pfizer, Moderna, and all the other vaccine providers are serving literally Billions of people...they'll have contracts with them as well and it will test our ability to "cooperate" internationally.
Hope this helps...comments welcomed.
Link: https://time.com/5917847/pfizer-cut-covid-19-vaccine-targets/
In order to drag out the pandemic restrictions on the economy?
Brilliant political strategy.
Yes Baron. You and your fellow cult members are victims.
Link: And now the rest of the story ...
a liberal zealot.
The governor doesn’t care about people dying. She’s slow-rolling the vaccinations for some reason.
It’s a really weird worldview.
I never said all Dems are evil...that is just your hyperbole. But Gretch is nasty.
There is something blatantly evil going on in that party. This is beyond the usual partisan bickering that we've all had going back since forever.
The left has gotten so power-hungry that they've gotten themselves into bed with the worst of what society has to offer, because they thought they were nothing more than a small cluster of useful idiots. Now, they've painted themselves into a corner on a whole lot of issues that they're now forced to defend, no matter how stupid or immoral.
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.....your article is disingenuous. Nothing in your article explains a delay into the summer. It is absurd. And Trump won’t even be around. All vaccine companies were i. Full production before approval in case theirs was the only one approved. We should have a bounty.
And btw, Michigan has its first round shipment, it chooses to wait until AFTER the Holiday to distribute it.
Stop with the excuses. Stop with the fake news.
I predicted that you liberals would delay the vaccine, or discredit it. We know that your VP is an anti vaxer already.
Just give us Trumps last gift to us of an effective cure to this problem.
and be sure to get vaccinated while practicing mitigation...the faster we get above 70% of the population vaccinated, the faster we get back on track...do all that you can to make this happen.
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/next-six-months-will-be-vaccine-purgatory/617371/
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looking forward to it.
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Let's get started...it's the best way of making progress, since entrenched positions are non-productive. This may be a novel idea, but give it a try.
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....I called it.
I don’t care about conspiracies, I go by what Greth’s own Health Dept said today.
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Russia has been hacking every corner of Trump's government since March.
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You may want to check out if JoePa is comprised by the Chinese.
BTW it's our government if you forgot.
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