Biden’s team is taking many additional steps that should improve this rollout. He plans to ask Congress for $20 billion to offer shots at more stadiums and pharmacies, provide mobile vaccine operations, and hire more health care workers to speed the process. He aims to buy hundreds of millions more doses as they become available, to ensure not only that everyone gets vaccinated this time, but that more shots are available if boosters turn out to be needed down the road. He also intends to order up syringes capable of drawing extra doses from vaccine vials and to encourage suppliers to shrink minimum shipment sizes so that rural hospitals aren’t left to discard surplus doses.
Among those who have been vaccinated, 74 percent work in hospitals, and 23 percent work in employee health fields, which includes occupational health services. Fewer than 1,000 vaccine doses have gone to people not in hospital or employee health occupations.
Among those who have been vaccinated, 74 percent work in hospitals, and 23 percent work in employee health fields, which includes occupational health services. Fewer than 1,000 vaccine doses have gone to people not in hospital or employee health occupations.