I doubt that would work in America. We demand to make our own decisions and many essential workers are angry that they’ve had to wait this long. They won’t settle for the “pretty good” vaccine when they can get the “great“ one.
You can’t shout “95% efficacy!” from the rooftops and then expect educated people to forget. Many teachers, for example, are frustrated at STILL not having access to vaccine while people demand that schools go back full-time. We educators, not surprisingly, are educated. Every colleague I speak with is very clear: we want Moderna or Pfizer, we’ve had high exposure since August, and we will have the vaccines that work the best.
The recent purchase of enough doses for 300 million of us suggests the administration is well-aware that their only hope of herd immunity in America is from pushing the excellent vaccines and save JnJ for those who prefer one shot and don’t care about the lower efficacy. But FORCING someone to get JnJ won’t fly here. MY RIGHTS!
It’s easy to speak in hypotheticals and say, “I’d get whatever I could get,” but in the real world, you sign up for an appointment and know you are going to a 2-dose appointment. I would select the 2 dose every time. JnJ clinics, during the initial rollout, would likely be separate and ideal for mobile vaccination clinics in areas without enough pharmacies or hospitals or with populations that do not have health insurance. You can bring a truck with JnJ right to those neighborhoods this summer--1 shot, no questions asked, and done.
