I've been keeping track of the US vaccination numbers for awhile, via the CDC's site. Now that we have a competent president, things are finally starting to pick up, with over 2 million doses per day administered over the last four days, and over 1 M/day since the end of January. The numbers getting either one or two doses are accelerating too. Not fast enough -- it never will be -- but isn't it great to know we don't have a toxic, seditious clown in charge -- just a quiet, decent, hard-working man who has the right priorities and is getting things done.
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David, are you following UK example of getting one jab into as many people as possible in the shortest time? Or is the US following WHO recommendations of 21 days between injections?
Hi Ian. I wish we were that organized. But here it's state-by-state, so there are 50 different sets of policies, so I don't at all know all of them. (It's a really dumb way to go about it, in my opinion, and a stupid legacy of Trump's lack of caring and lack of management skills. He set it up this way precisely *because* he didn't care and didn't want the responsibility, I'm sure.)
Here in Oregon it seems to be (again, there isn't a lot of clarity from government until your category gets called -- they've only done special categories such as health care workers, some teachers I think, first responders (to emergencies) -- they're not even to the 80 year olds yet)) this way -- my sister, who is a home physical therapist, got her first jab about a month ago and her second 21 days later. (The second made her fairly sick, but just for a day.) So I'm guessing that's the standard.
With the NHS as a single national point of health and of communication, I'm sure things are much clearer over there, Ian, if perhaps just as frustrating. I going to maybe try to write a post about Canada, which seems to have it worst of all.
David wrote: "Now that we have a competent president, things are finally starting to pick up, with over 2 million doses per day administered over the last four days, and over 1 M/day since the end of January."
Like the underpants gnomes from South Park, this statement leaves out phase 2: What has Biden that Trump would not have done? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zc4bGkU05o
Cheers
I agree. It doesn't look like the trajectory changed when Biden took office: ourworldindata
Thanks, David. At least you now have someone in charge who is competent and cares. Boris made such a mess in the early stages of this pandemic that he had to pin all his hopes on the vaccine. Looks like he may come up smelling of roses. If nothing else he does now appreciate the NHS, after all it did save his life.
We still suffer from poor Government communication: I fear it will always be so because of short term thinking and too many stakeholders beholden unto. Lots of business and conservative pressure to re-open society asap instead of following the science.
It looks like the US has turned the corner. Long may that continue.
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