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Originally Posted by lamboguy
in the United States the government is paying $19 per vaccine and so far has not got that many shots in peoples arms.. Israel which has a total population of 9 million people has paid $68 per vaccine and has enough shots to vaccinate every citizen and Palestinian in that country and will be done vaccinating by March 1, 2021. https://www.politico.eu/article/isra...uccess-secret/
Massachusetts which has a smaller population has not been able to distribute the vaccines to its population. starting this Saturday there will be mass vaccinations taking place in Gillette Stadium. they plan on vaccinating 5000 people a day there in 2 weeks. they are also trying to work out a deal with Fenway Park to do the same thing there. there are plenty of other places that will be able to administer the vaccine like CVS, doctor's offices or urgent care facilities and health departments to administer 100,000 vaccines per day.. the only problem that might occur would be the supply of the vaccine. |
Israel is way ahead of us and will provide us with a lot of insight on how effective these vaccines will be in knocking out the virus(and will provide insights as to their safety). I have to assume at this point a lot of people are wait and see, while many others obviously can't wait to get it. Personally I am in the wait and see camp (if I have that option).
It is pretty amazing that we were so anxious for a vaccine and we have managed 10 million initial doses in a month. That is a whopping 3% of our population(vs Israels 20% of their population). At that rate it will take us close to 3 years to vaccinate our population. Meanwhile 3000 + people die every day from covid supposedly. Obviously the vaccination rate will accelerate but not an impressive rollout by any stretch.
