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.
Michigan is another state doing quite well, after initial hiccups. They are doing far better than Ohio, which as completely stagnated at this point, for a lot of confusing reasons.
California is still doing awful....just barely better than Alabama, South Carolina, etc.
But the worst in the country? NEVADA. They are horrendous.
So, in short...if Biden gets to only 100m vaccines in 100 days, he basically is just riding Trump's coattails at this point.
He'll have to do far better than that to be called a success.
We need to be significantly ramping up.
On a worldwide level, the best countries:
Israel28.52% (!!!!)
U.A.E.18.34%
Bahrain9.62%
U.K.6.76%
U.S.4.48%
Denmark2.93%
Worst: India and China (others are doing worse, but these two failing means 1/3 of the world population is failing.
This is an interesting chart, showing which countries are prepared to inoculate their people.
China pretty awful here too.
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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..."