Many states have administered only a fraction of the doses allocated to them in the early weeks. Some as little as 10%, according to our analysis published this evening. @business
So far, the U.S. has administered just over 2 million shots. There is -- certainly -- data lag. But not 18 million doses of data lag, or likely anything even close to that.
Our analysis looks at the first three weeks of allocations (two Pfizer allocations, one Moderna allocation) and uses state-reported data to look at how much vaccine they've worked through. Some states have lower numbers of received/distrib doses.
We spoke to @ashishkjha, who raised concerns that the "last mile" of vaccine deployment has not gotten the investment it needed for a project of this size:
There are some VERY important caveats here: it’s the early days, it’s also the holidays, it’s a logistical nightmare.
But it’s also not going as fast as hoped.
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1) Added CDC data 2) Used state counts when ahead of CDC 3) Made some BIG updates to the map + table -- you can see doses been shipped to states + what % of doses have been used
🇺🇸Some good-ish U.S. news -- pace picking up slightly 2.66M vacc shots done (+300k vs y'day, vs 200k/day average), likely getting out of some holiday slump/lag.
The pace of vaccinations in the U.S. is going at about 200k/day, on average. This is...not as fast as expected. The U.S. will fall very, very far short of its 20M doses by end of 2020 goal, by our analysis:
This is the inside story of how a group of journalists, optimists, academics and hundreds of volunteers built @COVID19Tracking project to tell the U.S. how the pandemic is evolving.
The folks at @COVID19Tracking, including @alexismadrigal@kissane and many others, invited me in to look under the hood, hang out in their Slack, do some data entry, and generally interview anyone I wanted. It was incredibly trusting, and I can't thank everyone there enough.
I'll share here some observations that are in the piece:
Lysol's parent, @discoverRB, is on track to make 35 million cans a month in the North American market. Their usual max -- running 7 day a week, 24 hours a day, is 10 million.