aDisappointment continues with the speed of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, with health officials in Colorado on Tuesday recording the first known U.S. case of the Covid-19 type discovered in the UK.
Different strains of the UK seem to be more transmissible than other types of viruses found today, and have been found in many countries around the world. The Colorado case, which is currently in isolation, is of a 20-year-old man who has not given up his hand. Country. The lack of a travel history means that he traveled to the U.S. Infected with the virus, here the undiagnosed infection of the new variant was indicated.
The discovery will increase the urgency of the current Covid-19 vaccination campaign, which some public health experts have criticized at a very slow pace. The Trump administration has shipped more than 11 million doses of the two available Covid-19 vaccines, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says only 2.1 million people nationwide have received the shot since vaccination began on December 14.
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President-elect Joe Biden punished the Trump administration in a speech Tuesday for a slow rollout of his vaccine. He warned The administration’s attempt to distribute and administer the vaccine “is not progressing as it should” and if vaccination efforts continue to “accelerate, it will take years, not months, for Americans to be vaccinated.”
He promised us “moving the heavens and the earth to move in the right direction,” and predicted many of the policy efforts he would take 100 days earlier in office, including the establishment, to use the Defense Products Act to speed up vaccine production. Public health awareness campaigns and sending mobile vaccination units to hard-to-reach communities. Biden also reiterated his previous commitment to ensure that 100 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine are given in their first 100 days of treatment.
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He demanded nonetheless to anger expectations.
“It will take longer than anyone likes and it will take longer than the promises made by the Trump administration,” Biden said. “This is going to be the greatest operational challenge we have ever faced as a nation but we will meet it. It will take a huge new effort that is not yet underway. ”
In an interview earlier this month, Monsef Sloi, chief adviser for the vaccine development and distribution effort, promised to inoculate 200 million Americans against Covid-19 in December.
Michael Pratt, chief communications officer at Operation Operation Speed, insisted that the vaccine delivery effort was largely on schedule. He said Sloui and others referred only to how many doses they expected to receive by the end of the previous year, not the number of vaccinations until the first week of the rollout.
“Operation Operation Dora’s pace is to keep about 40 million doses of the vaccine and to allocate 20 million doses for the first vaccination by the end of December 2020, with 20 million doses being distributed in the first week of January 20 as states order,” Pratt said.
Pratt pointed to data reporting gaps as part of the reason for the large gap between the number of vaccines delivered in the states and the number of drugs actually administered. However, state data compiled by the New York Times also shows that most states administered a small portion of the vaccine dose they received.
“We’re down where we want to be,” Anthony Fauci, director of national allergy and infectious diseases, told CNN Monday. “I am not responsible for the rollout. I cannot personally guarantee that we will catch up. I hope we will. “
Some vaccine experts said they are not surprised by the speed of vaccine delivery so far.
Paul Litt Fitt, a professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Hospital in Philadelphia, told STAT. “We had to travel and fall and stumble and find this figure.”
Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, said there was a potential gap between administered and delivered doses due to a program run by CVS and Wal-Wal-Ligrins for vaccinations in nursing homes. States participating in the program will have to set aside 50% of their doses, which Henna said could be part of the difference between doses and doses given nationally.
“I don’t think it’s bad,” he said of the pace of distribution so far. “I think it has always been like this. And I think this is the really easy part. “
The logistics of the rollout are largely left to navigate across the states. State and local public health officials have warned for months that they will need more than $ 8 billion in funding to build the infrastructure needed to administer the vaccines. The Trump administration provided 3 40,340 million to the states to prepare for vaccinations. Congressional lawmakers also spent months focusing on allocating additional funds for vaccine distribution, although the coronavirus stimulus package signed by President Trump on Sunday included 8 8 billion in funding for that effort.
“We are trying to do everything on the shore when we really need a lot of money. It’s been extraordinary, the needs of which should have been taken care of six months ago, so we’re not continuing to build the system, because we’re rolling it out, “said Ann Lewandowski of the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative.
“There doesn’t seem to be any investment or plan in the last mile.” Ashish Zane tweeted, Dean of Brown University School of Public Health. “There is no effort from the Fed to help states start a realistic framework for vaccination. Didn’t Feeds know the vaccines were coming? Should not be planned around vaccination sites, etc. If not in October or November? “
Several public health officials, including former CDC director Tom Frieden, have publicly blamed Operation Operation World Speed Leadership for speeding up the rollout. Gus Parna, a military general and logistics expert who has no previous experience with the vaccination campaign, is spearheading the distribution effort.
“What happens when a vaccination program is run as a logistics program by White House appointments with zero experience?” Frieden wrote on Twitter. “Doesn’t start well.”
Other public health leaders told the state that a lack of communication with the federal government hampered their initial distribution efforts.
Anita Landquist, executive director of pharmacy services at St Crooks Regional Medical Center in Wisconsin, said the center did not know what type of vaccine, the number of doses, or the time of delivery would arrive until Monday’s shipment. That uncertainty meant the hospital had to constantly plan early vaccination appointments for staff. It also meant that hospital officials devised plans to carry both Pfizer and Moder vaccines, which require different storage protocols.
At various stages of December, the Wisconsin State Department of Health indicated that St. Croix Regional Medical Center would receive 200 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Instead, they received 100 doses of Moderna shots, less than a quarter of what is needed to vaccinate all clinical staff.
Lewandowski of the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative said those waiting for vaccine deliveries have to rely on their health department for updates, as the federal government’s Tiberius tracking system is used nationwide to monitor quantitative locations, accessible only by state. Said Lewandowski of the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative.
“Warnings aren’t working ideally, and even communication from the CDC to the state isn’t ideal,” Lewandowski said. His vaccination was expected at a local hospital the day before Christmas, he said, after repeated emails to the state health department to find out if the dose was delayed because a FedEx truck was involved in an accident taking him.
Such last-minute delays have a significant impact on the schedule, especially as many healthcare systems plan vaccinations so employees have a few days left to come out of side effects. “It all goes out the window,” Lewandowski said.
Distribution also slowed due to blizzards along the east coast last week. The Wisconsin State Department of Health told hospitals there were delays in the timely discharge of moderns, Landquist said, meaning hospitals expecting to receive the vaccine last Wednesday received its shipment on Monday or Tuesday.
