County Plans for COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution

10-4!
Thank you

It's a gamble, but might pay off. The longer this goes on, the more frustrated people will ignore the rules, and the chancier it will get to go out for groceries. Watch the hospital rates and decide where you will go if you need emergency surgery and there are no beds at your local hospital.

Wow!
Not cool, BASICINFO !
Apparently there are many people on this community board that have differing opinions; that is fine. To be able to speak freely and openly is a luxury. Please don’t call anyone an “idiot”.
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I agree. I have never done so and I did not allow the doctors to put that in my son either. I will not get the vaccine and I hope my son doesn’t as well.

If you were in the military, you were vaccinated at some point.

If you replace "Tom" with "to" the sentence makes more sense. I'm guessing that's an autocorrect substitution. They were probably leaving a reply using a smartphone, which in my experience can get pretty aggressive with the autocorrect and text prediction.

@Basic, who's Tom? And why the name calling? You might see someone for that anger.

@Nostra, I respect non-western modes of medicine, and spent a decade studying a couple of modalities you might appreciate. As far as the worst side-effects of pills always afflicting you, I found it extremely interesting to hear two days ago that the only side-effects of Pfizer's (or was it Moderna's?) vaccine were experience only by the PLACEBO group. The mind is a powerful thing, for better or for worse.

Nostrachumash do you not use any type of western medicine at all? No dental care? No surgery? No antibiotics?

That's actually pretty amazing if true.

I believe the CDC had teachers listed in the second phase of essential workers.

You're acting like drugs that have been tested on thousands and thousands of people have never been recalled because they were later deemed to be harmful. Look up Merck's Rofecoxib (Vioxx).

You’re acting like they haven’t tested this on thousands and thousands of people already. What do you mean “guinea pig”? You mean like the people who signed up to be in the trial and test it already? Come on.... it’s been tested. It’s safe.

GC- that was half a century ago. I’m sure the medical world has advanced no?

HZ - Must, first providers be required to take the vaccine? I refer you to the HEADLEY 6:50am comment. Also, a question I submitted. Is it wise to have (all) essential people vaccinated at one time?

Doulie, they key concerns are that these vaccines have been rushed, and many of them are using experimental delivery systems. Traditional vaccines use inactive/attenuated viruses, or viral proteins expressed in another organism such as plants. Many of these new COVID vaccines are using DNA (adenovirus) or mRNA (encapsulated in lipids) to deliver a coding sequence so the vaccinated person's own cells can produce the antigen (spike protein for example). There are a lot of risks associated with this, such as triggering an autoimmune reaction. I wouldn't be a candidate for the vaccine until they get to the "everyone else" (stage 4?) category anyway, so I can sit and observe this global experiment with much interest and then decide in a year or so if I want to get the vaccine. I'm in no rush.

BASIC - What if something like HEADLEY reported occurs when the administration rushed out the flu vaccine and major medical issues occurred.

Doullie, the answer is Yes - Yes it is wise. Vaccines work. Period.

The vaccine was not created due to the lame-duck US president. This was a global effort.

Skeeter, it's because Trump is the president and anything associated with him is bad, wrong, or could have been done better. So even though this the fastest a vaccine has ever been created, tested and manufactured, if only anyone else was president it could have been done faster, with a higher effective rate, less side effects, etc....

In what world are we “moving at a snails pace”?? The coronavirus existed for maybe a year now, and we already have multiple vaccines ready and effective at unbelievable levels of efficacy. This is the FASTEST it could possibly have been done. And you think it’s a “snails pace”? You should be the last person to get a vaccine.

LOOSE - Myself, I'll just wait until the vaccine is proven effective & without significant side effects on a large majority of the vaccinated population. If COVID gets me, that's on me. Is it wise to have (all) essential people vaccinated at one time?

A-1606879413 : The Bloomberg article you cite refers to PPE (protective equipment), not the vaccine. I have no objection to the principle of distributing the vaccine in phases. It only makes sense to vaccinate health-care workers and people who are at at-risk (seniors, sick people) first, so I don't mind waiting. But seriously? Five or six more months before I can get immunized seems like an absurdly long length of time. Ahe where do teachers fit into this scenario: April ? (Guess that means more Zoom classes for the Spring. What a rotten prospect!) The Defense Production Act needs to be invoked to accelerate the production of the vaccine. This is a war we are fighting. Why are we going at snail's pace?

10-4!

3:31, Libs live in your head rent free 24/7

So many voices!

Yacht...right, then we’d have a lot more in common. Bahahahah.

Not true, 420722. Lots of democrats gave Trump a chance. We may have been skeptical, but we kept hoping for the best. Remember how people kept saying, “okay, now he’s going to pivot, now he will act presidential,”? But he never did.

Waaah! Good thing you're not a 5 year old.

Give me a break pit, like you weren’t a complaining and griping Never-trumper from the moment you found out he won and probably even before that. Puhleeeez. No dem or lib was out there saying “let’s just give him a chance.” Lmao, nice try.

DOULIE - who do you think is pulling Biden's "strings?"

Disappointing to see the Trumpians pile on Biden before he has even started his job, and was prevented from getting an early start by the Repubs. If you keep up the extremist tactics of the last 4 yrs, our republic will be the loser. I hope all of your friends and relatives act just like Trump. That would be a fitting punishment.

OK.....

Let's just leave it at "Biden can't do diddly" period.

Relax. Do you really think the manufacturers are not going maximize their production? I used to work for a vaccine manufacturing company and I guarantee you they will be pumping out product as fast as they can. But don't expect a Defense production act to be capable of speeding up production. Plants can only put out so much and there is no time to certify new or alternative production facilities (that can take years). What he can do is utilize Federal resources to ensure fair and effective distribution, but production volume is going to be maximized and limited. We all need to calm down and wait our turn, the end may not be close but it is within sight. Just please for the sake of humanity, don't let the anti-vax conspiracy theory's take hold. I fear what the next few months of false information are going to look like. It's already rearing it's ugly head in this thread.

Loose, dunno if you know this but Biden isn't the president yet so he can't really do anything? But I agree with you, he should invoke it, when he becomes president. For PPE, that is, not meat or poultry like Trump did.

Biden can't do "diddly" until the people pulling his strings tell him what to do.

This is a huge undertaking. And Biden can’t do diddly until after Jan. 20.

just keep wearing your mask and practice social distancing. The logistics are huge..how to vaccinate the whole population. At least there is a vaccine on the horizon.