Posted on 02/14/2021 11:14:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Another item on Joe Biden’s to-do list for his first one hundred days in office is the establishment of 100 federal vaccination sites, or “pods,” around the country. That plan understandably had governors and mayors of large cities pretty excited, given how hard it’s been to make significant progress toward herd immunity. It’s a plan that drew bipartisan interest, too. The state Department of Health in Oklahoma, not exactly a blue state by any measure, was ready to sign up for federal pods in three of their largest cities. But as details of the plan emerged, they quickly backed off. Biden’s plan would establish new places for people to go get vaccinated, but it makes no provision for providing additional doses of the vaccine. (Associated Press)
The Biden administration’s plan to open 100 vaccination sites by the end of the month was initially embraced by governors and health officials, who considered it a much needed lifeline to get more Americans inoculated against the coronavirus.But reality has quickly set in: Some are hesitating to take the offer, at least for now, saying they don’t need more places to administer doses. They just need more doses.
Eager to protect more people against the coronavirus, health officials in Oklahoma jumped at the chance to add large, federally supported vaccination sites. They wanted them in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and a third, mid-size city, Lawton, thinking the extra help would allow them to send more doses to smaller communities that had yet to benefit.
This situation is similar to the one I described last week that’s been encountered in New York State. New York City and several other municipalities initially set up their own pods to cover urban areas, providing vaccinations in densely populated areas. But the state set up its own pods in every county.
The state controls the receipt and distribution of the vials and they were sent to the state pods first. This left a bunch of the municipal and county pods with not nearly enough doses so the workers have often been sitting around in “ghost towns,” with plenty of demand, but only a piddling number of vials.
Biden’s plan is just taking the flawed New York model and amplifying it to a national level. Health officials in Oklahoma quickly realized that the new federal pods in the cities would be drawing from the pool of vials that they were already scheduled to receive. If that happens, there will be even fewer doses available for the pods in the rural areas that they’re trying to expand. Instead of advancing the pace of vaccinations, the federal initiative would actually slow down the vaccination rate in most counties.
As we’ve seen in too many places on the state level, this looks like yet another idea of someone coming up with a “Big Idea” to address the problem without thinking it through. As health officials in Oklahoma told the White House, they’re not dealing with a shortage of places for people to be vaccinated. They dealing with a shortage of vials.
The governors of Washington, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, and Florida have all similarly put the federal plan on hold. They’re all interested in signing on for some federal pods, but only if they come with their own separate supplies of vaccine. As of now, the White House doesn’t have any way to make more doses magically appear, so you’re probably going to be seeing more of these “thanks, but no thanks” messages coming from the governors.
Perhaps the top-down approach just isn’t working here. In some states, such as Minnesota, health officials have authorized the pharmaceutical companies to send doses directly to pharmacies that have set up appointment systems created with the ability to ensure people from the prioritized groups are getting the appointments first. If we can cut out all of the middle-men in this process and have Pfizer and Moderna ship out the vials straight to the places in each community where people would expect to go get an injection, we might at least smooth out the distribution curve until production can be ramped up further.
What is the COST for each vaccine and WHO is paying for this?
if you don’t know who the designated sucker is at a poker game . . . it’s you.
Waste of money and other resources. Unnecessary, for show.
But also I am sure there is more than the for show component.
This is a diabolical totalitarian junta Biden fronts. They have reasons.
I live in a county boarding Tulsa Co. I don’t know anyone who has gotten the vaccine. Tulsa and Oklahoma counties are not a good representation of Oklahoma.
My guess is that these pods are targeted for a specific group.
And here we see some pods being delivered to grateful citizens.
It’s a great plan because its got the number 100 in it.
It’s a great plan because its got the number 100 in it.
The reason for federal vaccination sites is to associate the federal government and its officials with the administration of life-preserving vaccines that are diverted from state, !ocal, and private channels. This builds federal political power and develops a tacit threat that the federal government can deny vaccine doses to those who are out of favor.
I’d be SCARED of what is in those doses.
The leftists always figure out the most costly, inefficient and wasteful way to do something and mandate that. They have it down to a science.
none of your business, and you are paying for it
- joe biden
I’m still trying to figure out how the nfl can offer stadiums as vaccine sites. Unless I’m mistaken don’t the cities own most if not all these stadiums? That would make the cities call not the nfl would it not?
They want to apply everything of a national, Federal level. The input of the Individual states is not important.
One thing is for sure, Fauci and Gates are getting their cuts.
What is the COST for each vaccine and WHO is paying for this?
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1. Don’t know
2. You and I via the taxes we pay.
Nov 29, 2020 — The cost for each dose ranges from $3 to $37,
depending on the vaccine. Moderna, a two-dose vaccine,
recently announced each dose will go for around $32 to $37.
The Pfizer vaccine, also given in two doses, is expected to
cost $19.50 a dose.
I got one dose last Friday and have to go back this coming
Friday for the 2nd dose.
I listened this week as one of our company VP’s openly praised Biden on a Zoom call due to his “action” on distributing the vaccine, and how much it will help the economy rebound. The VP’s heart may be in the right place, but as usual, details matter.
Also, not the first time praise was openly heaped on the left, while Trump (and in turn, anyone on these calls who may have voted for him) is denigrated, joked about and insulted.
I’ve got so many bite marks in my tongue I can’t taste anything anymore.
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