U.S. ramps up vaccinations to get doses to more Americans

My county is taking reservations for anyone over 65 yrs old. They are setting up huge parking lots for people to get the vaccine while staying inside their vehcle, parked for at least 15 min, then leaving if no problems happen.

But older people don't drive here and many will not cross major roads because they know they can't safely drive in crazy traffic. Read where a married 89 yr old couple asked when the vaccine will be available in their neighborhood. They don't want to drive to the planned parking lot.

Also saw a number of 63 yr olds asking if they could get into the over 65-appointments.

The good news is that the health care people are nearly all vaccinated and the cops and other first responders are in full swing. Of course, only volunteers. Some of those people are choosing NOT to get vaccinated for specific reasons.

This is a start. Clearly logistics is a major issue, maybe the bottle neck issue. I read a report (sorry I cannot remember where) that said 1 hospital had to discard 66% of its allotted vaccine because it could not find enough arms in time.

Trump completely failed in the roll out. He just does not care and is too stupid to coordinate something difficult but un-sexy like the production, distribution and mass injection of vaccines.

Hopefully Biden will clean up this mess because there is no economic recovery until the public health crisis passes.

The Feds are sending vaccines to the states. It is the states who are responsible, as they should be, for distribution to the right people, in the right order, at the right locations.

The Feds don't have any place in health care for 99.99% of Americans, unless they are veterans getting care at a VA or military hospital. State laws control health insurance. Doctors are licensed in each state. When a license is taken from a doctor, that is from the state licensing board 99% of the time. The Feds can take licenses through the DEA, but that doesn't happen.

Some state health departments aren't good with organization. They probably have always farmed out that work to each county, but I truly don't know. I know that in my county, the organization is excellent across almost all of the govt efforts.

My state saw some rural counties having a surplus of the very first vaccine deliveries, so they were clear that the next group could be vaccinated rather than ship viles back to the larger cities. In a county with 2000 people total, being flexible is smart. I'm guessing those locations weren't able to provide accurate counts back to the state for all the people who wanted to be vaccinated in the early rounds who were also eligible by their job, so they guessed and that was a little high. Some rural areas here have the highest infection rates. People think transmitting disease is a big-city issue only.