Branswell has a history of vaccine-pessimism.
I wonder wwhy this is so.
But meanwhile you better be careful, since she may just want
to justify her previous pessimism.
“By the end of January, we believe we’ll be able to vaccinate all seniors. By the March and
April timeframe, we believe we’ll be able to vaccinate any American who desires a vaccination,”
Mango said.
[#but how long would that take ?]
Alan Azar said :
“We expect that we would have by end of this year enough
vaccine that is FDA-authorized to be able to vaccinate the
most vulnerable individuals,Then, by end of January, we’d
expect we’d have enough to vaccinate all seniors, as well as our
health care workers and first responders.
Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy for Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar,
As for the idea that all Americans will have had a chance to be vaccinated by the early spring,
Osterholm suggested it is going to take longer.
“For many of us, we never thought that that was doable,” he said. “I commend Operation
Warp Speed for what it has accomplished in the time it has, but to have vaccinated the
U.S. population by March in my mind was never a realistic goal.”
Anna Durbin, a vaccine researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
said the public needs to understand that Covid vaccines may be a bit further off than people
have been led to believe.
“We may see efficacy in one or more trials by the end of 2020, but that doesn’t mean we’re
going to have a vaccine available at the end of 2020,” she said.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/...accine-alex-azar-cdc-hhs-timeline/3720278001/
Mertens thinks it's already "quite a challenge" to vaccinate 100000 people per day in Germany
OTOH we know it works well for the yearly flu-vaccination, so why is COVID "harder" to vaccinate ?
