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18 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
ITS BEGUN.
I told you it was a mistake to show them how to water ski.

NOW THEY ARE WIELDING KNIVES!
And @PolitiBunny has been warning us for years!

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Pradheep J. Shanker Profile picture
19 Jan
100 million doses in 100 days is...not a major achievement, at this point.

We've already been doing 800k or so a day.

At the pace at the end of 2020, we should be closer to 1.6-2.0 million a day by the end of 100 days.
Regarding #covidvaccineupdate...

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.

bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…
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.
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Pradheep J. Shanker Profile picture
19 Jan
Something I've been discussing.

We haven't done a good job of selling the vaccine. Thankfully, our public is largely sold on vaccinations (unlike France, for example).

But we can do better.
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.

This has caused a lot of damage.
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Pradheep J. Shanker Profile picture
17 Jan
#CovidVaccineUpdate

The US is at 4.2%. We are vaccinating about 0.3% daily right now. At this rate, it would take us 11 months to vaccinate everyone.

But, the pace is accelerating.

bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…
The worst states right now?

Alabama 2.66%
Nevada 2.72%
California 3.0%
South Carolina 3.0%
Worst states in % of vaccines used?

Alabama 29.3%
Hawaii 30.5%
North Carolina 32.6%
California 33.5%

(And Hawaii at least has an excuse, because of location).
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Pradheep J. Shanker Profile picture
17 Jan
Where is the media outrage?
@GavinNewsom

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
Demand is through the roof.

But the STATE GOVERNMENT (not the Feds) are failing Californians.

abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…
This is why the media is complete garbage.

If this was happening in Florida, CNN would be losing their minds.

But California? They don't care.

abc7news.com/california-cor…
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Pradheep J. Shanker Profile picture
16 Jan
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.
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15 Jan
NY is really a disaster: COVID vaccine appointments canceled as NYC hospitals face supply problems nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-ho…
This was TEN DAYS AGO. Remember?

So, anyone think that @CNN reporters will spar with Cuomo like this?

LOL. Hell no. Nobody wants to make @ChrisCuomo look bad.

news.yahoo.com/florida-gov-ro…
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..."

Good luck seeing any questions like this.
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