Race to vaccinate millions across the U.S. off to a slow, messy start
Officials blame logistical and financial hurdles.
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press
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U.S. Air Force Veteran Robert Aucoin, 78, receives a COVID-19 vaccine dose at the Soldiers Home in Holyoke, Mass., on Tuesday. Hoang Leon Nguyen/The Republican via Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Terry Beth Hadler was so eager to get a lifesaving COVID-19 vaccination that the 69-year-old piano teacher stood in line overnight in a parking lot with hundreds of other senior citizens.
She wouldn’t do it again.
Hadler said that she waited 14 hours and that a brawl nearly erupted before dawn on Tuesday when people cut in line outside the library in Bonita Springs, Florida, where officials were offering shots on a first-come, first-served basis to those 65 or older.
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Shots are slow to reach arms as Trump administration leaves final steps of mass vaccination to beleaguered states Isaac Stanley-Becker © Matt Slocum/AP Penny Cracas, with the Chester County Health Department, prepares a coronavirus vaccination Tuesday in West Chester, Pa. In suburban Milwaukee, clinicians recently discarded 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine after vials were “intentionally” left unrefrigerated. In southeastern Arizona, a rural clinic has enough shots but too few employees lining up to take them. And on the coast of Maine, physicians have been left in the dark about when they will get vaccinated. The largest immunization campaign in U.S. history is off to a slow start, dimming hopes, at the end of a dismal year, of an imminent return to normal.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
Dec. 29
The Post and Courier on the COVID-19 vaccine campaign and convincing the public to take the vaccine:
The first shot of the second wave of COVID-19 vaccinations in South Carolina came Monday at a nursing home in Greenville. Now the question becomes: How do we get enough Americans to take the shots so the nation soon reaches âherd immunityâ? There is no single answer.
Recent polls on the willingness of people to be vaccinated point in different directions. The New York Times reports that repeated surveys by Gallup, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Pew have found a general increase in willingness to be vaccinated for the disease, from around 50% of Americans last summer to over 60% in December.
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Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
Dec. 29
The Post and Courier on the COVID-19 vaccine campaign and convincing the public to take the vaccine:
The first shot of the second wave of COVID-19 vaccinations in South Carolina came Monday at a nursing home in Greenville. Now the question becomes: How do we get enough Americans to take the shots so the nation soon reaches “herd immunity”? There is no single answer.
Recent polls on the willingness of people to be vaccinated point in different directions. The New York Times reports that repeated surveys by Gallup, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Pew have found a general increase in willingness to be vaccinated for the disease, from around 50% of Americans last summer to over 60% in December.
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