I am confused on the numbers you are giving. This was from Ciny news yesterday https://www.wcpo.com/news/coronavir...ries-to-administer-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines
Daily totals are from the ODH website: https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/vaccination-dashboard
Plus, with the delayed/slow final distribution, it seems on paper that there is quite a bit of said reserve. With the exception of a few states, less than half of the allocations have been administered.
I think as time goes on the % not used drops. Right now 18M doses distributed but only 5M used so over 70% unused. Some portion of the unused shots is a reserve. Let’s say for arguments sake its 10M doses. If you keep the reserve mostly constant then the next 18M doses can go straight to people. So now it’s 36M distributed and 26M used. The unused shots drop to 28%. The reserve may need to grow a little still but once we fully ramp up deliveries hopefully it won’t be an issue and we won’t need to hold back as many shots.
I'm one of them. Eyeing October, but not unless offerings come back and I'm vaccinated.
I'm glad they were able to use the doses and not have them go to waste. After front line workers and seniors in senior living settings (nursing home, assisted living, etc) get their vaccinations, the order of who else gets them doesn't matter. We need to get people vaccinated and limiting eligibility has turned out to be chaos.
I still think they should do 65+ and people with medical conditions that make them high risk next. It shouldn’t slow anything down as those are really easy groups to confirm with either ID proving age or a prescription from a doctor authorizing it. After that I agree it should be first come first serve. The attempt to classify different groups of workers is a fail. It will bog everything down If they have to do targeted vaccinations at work sites as opposed to mass vaccination sites with waves of people going through.
I was confused with the 8k and 30k numbers though. Sorry.
If we believe what the experts were warning us about on the holiday travel and get togethers the cases won’t peak until a few weeks after NYE. I hope that’s not the case and this is the peak, but it’s not good most places.
So now the question is, did they not get their targeted surveys back, and had nothing to determine vaccine administration capacity?
I don't think so, plenty in the pipeline right now just have to get it in arms
I think you have to start with "how many are needed", "how long does each take", "How many injections per hour can you do", then you can decide on how many stations for how many doses and what time frame you want it done. Six months is going to be tough and I don't expect assembly line injections until March at least.A bit of "wayback" in regards to logistics of vaccine delivery:
'Solid plan' in place for Florida COVID vaccine distribution; first doses going to hospitals
"We're ready to deploy the vaccine when it comes," Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz said.www.tallahassee.com
In the Florida state "microplan" I see it quantifying the demand (Nursing Homes, medical, prisons), but not what is the maximum vaccination rate the proposed distribution end points can deliver. I would think that should have been in the plan. It could have been estimated long before EUA. It is like knowing ride capacity. If you are delivering fun through rides, ride capacity is one of those things you determine before the customers line up for the ride. If you are delivering shots, the same would apply.
But aren't there still doses waiting for the order to be shipped? If there is permission to release these doses to states, that should give a little more wiggle room for states to widen the distribution phases.