I had chickenpox as a kid. My husband did not. Then when I was about 20, I got an itchy rash on my neck. My husband inspected it and neither of us knew what it was, so I went to the doctor. She said it was a shingles outbreak and it wasn’t contagious. Well a couple days later guess who came down with the chickenpox!
I had chickenpox as a kid. My husband did not. Then when I was about 20, I got an itchy rash on my neck. My husband inspected it and neither of us knew what it was, so I went to the doctor. She said it was a shingles outbreak and it wasn’t contagious. Well a couple days later guess who came down with the chickenpox!
But the miserable roll out and first week in California specifically, with 40 million Americans here, really puts a dent on things for the nation overall.
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We actually got married at 19 a couple weeks before we turned 20.
Okay, TP.Well, here's some good news for you this sunny, warm weekend!
As of Friday, January 15th the USA currently has the fifth highest vaccination rate among all other nations!
Israel is in first place, and by a mile. The United Arab Emirates (VERY wealthy and only 9 Million citizens) is second. Then Bahrain (another VERY wealthy nation with only half the population of Orange County), then the UK and then the USA. The USA is waaaaaay ahead of all the European countries that were hit far worse than us for deaths and misery from Covid.
Here's the vaccination stats as a percent of their overall population as of Friday...
1. Israel = 25.3% Vaccinated
2. UAE = 16.8% Vaccinated
3. Bahrain = 6.4% Vaccinated
4. United Kingdom = 5.4% Vaccinated
5. United States = 3.7% Vaccinated
6. Italy = 1.6% Vaccinated
7. Spain = 1.5% Vaccinated
8. Germany = 1.1% Vaccinated
9. Sweden = 0.8% Vaccinated
10. France = 0.5% Vaccinated
It's also important to remember that California is the largest state in the nation by population. There are 40 Million people here. And we currently are in 49th place, beating only Alabama, with a miserably low 27% vaccination rate of available doses. If California was doing as well as Texas in 6th place, the USA would probably nudge ahead of the United Kingdom among the top nations of the world who are currently doing mass vaccinations.
Things are actually going very well with vaccine distribution as a whole in the USA.
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I had chickenpox for the first time at age 27, right before Christmas. That was fun.I had chickenpox as a kid. My husband did not. Then when I was about 20, I got an itchy rash on my neck. My husband inspected it and neither of us knew what it was, so I went to the doctor. She said it was a shingles outbreak and it wasn’t contagious. Well a couple days later guess who came down with the chickenpox!
Supply definitely appears to be a concern but not for the first vaccine dose, it's making sure there is supply for when folks are supposed to get their second shot.Thus far, the problem in California is not supply. It is administration.
As of Friday evening, California has over 2.5 Million doses of unused vaccine from the Feds sitting in freezers statewide. But barely 1 Million doses have been actually administered in the last 10 days.
California doesn't need more doses. California needs a better system of distribution and administration. West Virginia, and many of the states in the Top 10 for vaccine administration, gave all their doses to local pharmacies and doctor's offices because they knew those small facilities were known and trusted by local communities, and easy to get to and maneuver through for elderly patients who need the vaccine the most. It was also the cheapest and most efficient way for the state government to do it.
So far, California has gone with these massive government-run Supersites that are clearly not working for a state of 40 Million people since California is #46 and West Virginia is #1.
To be fair to Governor Newsom, I've been to West Virginia, I had some extended family from there, and it's a very, very different place than California. But Texas is the nearest analogy to California. Texas is big and rich like California, and it has 30 million people in it and is very diverse like California.
And Texas is currently #6 in vaccine administration, while California is #46.
As a native Californian, it stings to be beaten so badly by Texas.
I had chickenpox when I was 15. I didn't realize it at the time but the fact that I took a nap on a bench in Communicore in my beloved EPCOT Center should have been a sign that I was getting sick. The dreaded pox didn't start showing up until the day after we returned home. It was the worst. I can't imagine having it at 27. Ugh.
Which is where this weeks change in distribution is important. They will be using all supply they have in order to get more people the first shot. At which time the supply chain will have ramped up production enough to start giving out supply for the second shot. You're going to see the number of shots distributed in California skyrocket over the next week.
Yeah getting it as an adult is terrible. My husband was so sick I almost took him to the emergency room several times. He was totally out of it for over a week. Very high fever, vomiting, the works.
Lol thank you!
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I need to have a meeting with Trudeau. I’m ready to accept Canada as my new home. Get me out of here.