General availability for the vaccine, and believed-to-be-sufficient supply (e.g. "doses for every person in X"), is not the endpoint for either the vaccination campaign or the pandemic, and is much farther from the endpoint of both than it is broadly believed to be.
Supply is hyperlocal and often non-fungible. From the perspective of many people who we need to vaccinate, much vaccine which we believe to be available and routable is as effective as vaccine stored on the surface of the moon.
We have some limited (and intentionally underexploited) ability to move demand around systemically but have functionally no ability to move around shipped supply and extremely limited (and intentionally underexploited) ability to retask future supply.
We appear to be tremendously underinvested in demand generation for the vaccine, largely because it was the most anticipated product in history among a large portion of the PMC, who almost literally cannot understand that much of the country cares about it less than Coke vs Pepsi
"That's an elitist thing to say."
I mean this as a neutral description of reality: there are many, many people whose entire job revolves around the reality that people will go to a different building for dinner based on what soda they offer.
I mean this as a neutral description of reality: there are many, many people whose entire job revolves around the reality that people will go to a different building for dinner based on what soda they offer.
In an ideal world, there would be a) less or b) more people whose entire job is convincing people to go to a different building for medical services based on whether that location can add a covid-19 shot to the day's other medical services?
Got a guess as to whether a or b true?
Got a guess as to whether a or b true?
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