The vaccine rollout is a mess. Across 50 states, there are 48 different ways that the vaccine is being distributed.
“It’s a little bit like designating one part of the swimming pool for urination and hoping for the best.”
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“It’s a little bit like designating one part of the swimming pool for urination and hoping for the best.”
latest from me and @CShalby latimes.com/california/sto…
Almost every state has made up its own list of who should get early access to the vaccine: police officers, teachers, incarcerated people, psychiatric patients, pregnant woman. There are CDC guidelines, but only three states are still following them. latimes.com/california/sto… 
The patchwork has created a frustrating situation in which the place you determines if you can get a vaccine yet. Not only does each state have its own list, but within California, there are as many as 61 more as counties are allowed to do their own thing.
For leaders making those decisions, it is effectively a zero-sum game: giving priority to some means fewer doses for others. And this moment is likely the most contentious phase of the rollout — a collision of relentless demand and constrained supply.
The nation’s vaccine supply may be abundant in a few months, but for now, when there are only so many lifeboats to go around, some people are bound to be harmed by being left onboard.
“I so regret having to think about it as an either-or."
“I so regret having to think about it as an either-or."
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