How is the distribution of the covid 19 vaccines going in your neighborhood?
Having just had an operation at Mass General earlier this week, I was pleased to hear that the nurses I met had their first vaccination. But then I checked the Boston Globe and Med Page Today on our local progress in relation to my own turn. Worth a discussion and feedback on your own locality.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/marty-makary/90649
Quote:
This is a manufactured problem. The CDC, states, and hospitals should have distinguished frontline COVID-19 workers from everyone who has a job connected to healthcare. As University of Iowa immunologist and CDC committee member Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD, told the New York Times, the CDC never intended to include workers who don’t interact with patients, like administrators and graduate students, in the first tier of priority vaccinations. Yet weeks after the FDA authorized the life-saving vaccine, hospitals like Brigham & Women’s Hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital, Columbia, and Vanderbilt raced to give the vaccine to young non-patient-facing students and staff. Many of those staff now realize the injustice in their allocation and admit they feel terrible displacing a vulnerable American in the vaccine line. Hospital leaders: this is a disgrace to our great profession. You should have known better.
This allocation crisis is not unexpected given the growing divide between hospital administrators and frontline physicians. Instead of convening the great medical minds on their staff, many hospitals took the lazy path of relying on the government to tell them what to do, even though the government guidance was purely advisory and not legally binding. It turned out to be late guidance and bad guidance. A simple strategy of allocating the vaccine by age, as the U.K. is doing, would have resulted in far less decision paralysis and misallocation. It would also have saved more American lives.”
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A simple strategy of allocating the vaccine by age, as the U.K. is doing, would have resulted in far less decision paralysis and misallocation. It would also have saved more American lives.
Dan Crawford
I just heard West Virginia used age as first criteria to get a vaccination and has almost doubled the US average
January 13, 2021
Coronavirus
Massachusetts
Cases ( 448,447)
Deaths ( 13,359)
Deaths per million ( 1,938)
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January 13, 2021
Coronavirus
New York
Cases ( 1,212,324)
Deaths ( 40,184)
Deaths per million ( 2,066)
[ The point is that there has been continual public health failings, federal and state, from the beginning. ]
I am sorry for the illness and hope all will be well now.
January 10, 2021; At Elite Medical Centers, Even Workers Who Don’t Qualify Are Vaccinated
Administrators and young graduate students have been inoculated at leading research hospitals, contrary to state and federal guidelines.By Apoorva MandavilliA 20-something who works on computers. A you ng researcher who studies cancer. Technicians in basic research labs. These are some of the thousands of people who have been immunized against the coronavirus at hospitals affiliated with Columbia University, New York University, Harvard and Vanderbilt, even as millions of frontline workers and older Americans are waiting their turns….
Again, I am especially careful in posting but the posting still goes wrong. I am sorry to have ruined another thread, but I could not have been more careful.
There is nothing wrong with your comment
The New York Times excerpt I posted was carefully spaced, but obviously all the spacing disappeared in posting. I was very, very careful. This has happened repeatedly but I have no idea why.
So, there is surely something wrong with my comment and I was completely polite as I always am in saying so.
January 13, 2021CoronavirusMassachusettsCases ( 448,447)Deaths ( 13,359)Deaths per million ( 1,938)————————————January 13, 2021CoronavirusIsraelCases ( 520,060)Deaths ( 3,817)Deaths per million ( 415)
[ Israel has a population of about 9 million, Massachusetts about 6.9 million. Notice the difference.
Also, Israel has already vaccinated 70% of those over 60 and 21% of citizens in all. ]
Sorry, I really, really, really tried.
I’m in IL and just registered my wife and I for the vaccine. Being over 65 I am now in the second group, but there is no schedule and it appears that they are no closer to vaccinating the first group.
EM:
Perhaps you have done so already, I would talk to your doctor or his nurse in charge (there is always one). We have a portal which we get messages on and are expecting notification that way. I am constantly messaged that way and all test results come that way also. I also tell them if I agree with what they want me to do via that way also.
Yeah, I see him on 2/3. Not a chance I will be eligible to a vaccine before then. But my understanding is that all vaccinations will come through the registration system.. But I’ll do both.
The Southern Five Counties in NJ have scant reserves to offer its citizens.