"We simply aren't receiving enough vaccines at the national level" Mayor Garcetti said.
"California has received not one dose of the vaccine. California doesn't directly administer the vaccine. That's done through a network of providers," said Newsom.
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Big kudos to NEW MEXICO. They really seem to have hit the nail on the head, showed a lot of competence in their vaccination rollout. Online signups are working (not perfectly, but still!). They deserve a lot of credit.
WV, ND, SD, AK, ME, VT, CT, NY, FL, OK, CO, UT, OR, NE, IN all doing pretty decent.
Florida started slower than NY, but has now passed in per capita vaccinations...they have vaccinated 200k more people than New York...or the population of Yonkers.
The public has a distrust of the intelligentsia right now though. Why?
"Early in the pandemic, many health experts decided that the public could not be trusted to hear the truth about masks. Instead, the experts spread a misleading message...the message was still a mistake."
To compound this, politicians on both sides have done a HORRIBLE thing by undermining public confidence in the vaccines.
Trump politicized the production.
Democrats then implied the vaccines were unsafe because of Trump.
So want to do a #covidvaccineupdate, because there appears to be a lot of confusion where we are having problems.
First and foremost? Almost nobody on the planet is doing well, outside of Israel, UAE and Bahrain.
The US has vaccinated just under 4% of the population in exactly one month. At that pace, it would take two years; but note the curve above. The rate is increasing at a steady rate. After 2 weeks, the US had vaccinated only about 1%.
If the US can maintain that rate of increase (or even half of that), we could be vaccinating 15% or so of the public monthly by March.
That is if the supply can be sustained; I am guessing it can be, with Moderna, Pfizer and JNJ expanding production dramatically already.
Flores: "My full question is what went wrong with the rollout of the vaccine when we've seen phone lines jammed, websites crashing...we've seen websites crash and also senior citizens waiting overnight for the vaccine..."