Officials: Primary care physicians should be distributing COVID-19 vaccine
Supply issues, my ***.
I think we now know why they weren't: To minimize reporting of adverse events.
And get a load of this from the CDC..
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From the link...
At this time, all COVID-19 vaccine in the United States has been purchased by the U.S. government for administration exclusively by providers enrolled in the CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Program. Only healthcare professionals enrolled as vaccination providers directly through a health practice or organization can legally store, handle, and administer COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.* Each section below will give you a better understanding of the program requirements for healthcare providers.
And note this warning...
Only healthcare professionals enrolled through a health practice or organization as vaccination providers in the CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Program (and authorized entities engaged in shipment for the Program) are authorized to lawfully possess, distribute, deliver, administer, receive shipments of, or use USG-purchased COVID-19 vaccine. Other possession, distribution, delivery, administration, shipment receipt, or use of COVID-19 vaccine outside the parameters of the Program constitutes, at a minimum, theft under 18 U.S.C. ยง 641, and violation of other federal civil and criminal laws. Violators are subject to prosecution to the full extent of the law.
I'm betting the real motivation for this was to reduce the chances of adverse events being reported. Storage and cost issues were an excuse.
A ping to my above replies if they’re of interest.