Frustration over vaccine rollout builds
“It had to go this way,” Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told STAT. “We had to trip and fall and stumble and figure this out.”
Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, said some of the gap between doses administered and delivered is likely due to a program run by CVS and Walgreens to vaccinate those in nursing homes. States participating in the program have to set aside 50% of their doses, which Hannan said could account for a share of the difference between doses shipped and doses administered nationally.
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The Trump administration had a “misperception” that “shipping the vaccine was success,” instead of following all the way through to vaccinate people, said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, which represents states’ vaccination officials.
She added that the projection of 20 million vaccinations by the end of the year was “way off to start with.”
“I don’t know why that was said, honestly,” she said.
Trump administration officials themselves are acknowledging the 20 million vaccinations figure will not be met.
“Exactly how fast the ramp up of immunizations, shots in arm, is happening is slower than we thought it would be,” Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientific adviser for Operation Warp Speed, said at a press briefing last week, adding that states should tell them their “asks” on what they need to accelerate the effort.
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.
Some states buck federal recommendations, prioritize vaccinating elderly over essential workers
Florida and Texas have diverged perhaps most starkly from the recommendations of the CDC advisory group.
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Patricia Wasseman, holds Hermina Levin s hands as nurse Eva Diaz administers the Pfizer vaccine at John Knox Village, Wednesday, Dec. 16, in Pompano Beach, Fla. AP Photo/Marta Lavandier
Some of the most populous states are shelving federal recommendations and making coronavirus vaccines available to the elderly before providing access to grocery store employees, transit staffers and other front-line workers.
Officials are pursuing such strategies in Florida and Texas, where a combined 50 million people live. The divergence reflects differing needs in a highly diverse country where the coronavirus has killed unevenly, but it also highlights an emerging patchwork that could pose obstacles for the nationwide immunization campaig
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