Thread by @WarrenJWells

My partner got her vaccine today in Berkeley.

In her 25 minutes at the drive-through facility, she was the only one there, despite several open stations.

What the hell is going on? Why is this not an wartime mobilization to vaccinate people?

Seriously, there were multiple vaccinators just chilling at their stations.

@berkeleyside can you look into this?

And to be clear, *I* don't need a vaccine right now.

But I think we need to be way less preoccupied about the "wrong" person getting a vaccine and just start handing them out.

I'll bet the unhoused folks living 350' from the garage haven't gotten a vaccine. Start there.

In New York, if a healthcare worker gives a vaccine to the wrong person they can be fined one million dollars!!

I mean, I get it, we don't want every doc vaccinating their own family first, but in a pandemic there are no wrong people to vaccinate. Just people who need it more.

There seems to be some confusion about my initial tweet. My partner is a healthcare worker and is getting the vaccine through her job.

But if there's enough slack in the system that people are just sitting around, maybe we should change who is eligible.

If the issue really is that there aren't enough vaccines to go around, then fine - give them where they're needed.

But if we're sitting on vaccines because people aren't showing up to appointment, then that's a huge issue.

Annnd this is who starts replying when a tweet goes semi viral.

There need to be standby lists like this for any pharmacy or hospital dispensing vaccines, ASAP.

https://twitter.com/MarkSussman_/status/1347410308994920448