Biden Sets New Covid Vaccine Goal of 200 Million Shots Within His First 100 Days (cnbc.com) 198
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a new goal of having 200 million Covid vaccination shots being distributed within his first 100 days in office. From a report: "I know it's ambitious -- twice our original goal -- but no other country in the world has come close ... to what we're doing," Biden told reporters as he opened his first news conference as president. "I believe we can do it." As of Friday, 100 million coronavirus vaccinations had been given since Biden was inaugurated. That benchmark -- which Biden set as his original target Dec. 8 -- was reached on his 59th day in office. After a slower-than-expected rollout under former President Donald Trump, the pace of vaccinations in the United States has rapidly increased and has been averaging about 2.5 million doses per day in the past week. If that vaccination rate is maintained, Biden's 200-million-dose target would be hit in about five weeks, or around April 23 -- a full week before Biden would mark 100 days in the White House. The federal government has a deal with Johnson & Johnson for delivery of 200 million doses. The first half of that order expected by the end of June. Merck is helping to make J&J's shot, which is a single-dose vaccination.
Send them where people are taking them (Score:5, Insightful)
I wish they could find a way to identify counties where a greater percentage of the population are eager to take the vaccine. I live in a very blue area where everyone everyone is fighting for doses, but I have had many friends and coworkers find success driving a few hours to more rural areas where they seem to have plenty of doses.
I'm not sure if the problem is just not accounting for population density, but it sure seems like counties where less people are politically opposed to the vaccines have a greater shortage than counties with more residents who think the vaccine is just a way for the government to track them.
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Oh sure, get vaccinated today with your v1 nanobots, but then you have to wait another year to get vaccinated with the v2 nanobots!
p.s.: this is sarcasm, for the conspiracy-dementia people out there.
Re:Send them where people are taking them (Score:5, Funny)
We'll have to start dosing those people like we do animals. Darting them from helicopters.
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And even if you write "/sarcasm" at the end of your post, you get modded troll anyway (see my post above).
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And for the non-USAmericans here, was Biden allowed do anything after winning the vote but before being sworn in?
This one I can answer (Score:2)
Trump's administration fought tooth and nail to stop Biden from transitioning. So much so that, rather hilariously, a lot of them didn't get their vacation pay because there was noone to approve it once they were unemployed.
Normally that wouldn't matter, since administration people are usually well taken care of when they leave but (again hilariously) they meet again, consequences of their own actions: nobody wants to hire them because, after spending 4 years lyi
That's 'cause of Poe's Law (Score:2)
On the other hand there's really no functional difference. I mean, if it walks like a duck...
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Don't anybody tell Archangel Michael ( 180766 ) that Daylight Savings Time is used in 70 countries around the world.
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Yes, I realize this was a "joke", except that there is no way to prove it was a "joke".
About how many millions of years will it take you to evolve the capability to tell it's a joke?
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What you'll likely find is that it's the healthcare entities in the areas that have individually struck deals for purchase of the vaccines, perhaps coupled with federal purchasing.
If you're in an area where there's a high population density, then it's likely that this has been constrained by cost of procurement and the availability of resource to deliver to candidate recipients.
If you're in a low population, where there's less contention for the available resource, then yes, you should find it easier on the
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If you're in an area where there's a high population density, then it's likely that this has been constrained by cost of procurement and the availability of resource to deliver to candidate recipients. If you're in a low population, where there's less contention for the available resource, then yes, you should find it easier on the staffing side, to obtain the necessary resource.
I find this very hard to believe, since there are more medical professionals and facilities per capita in urban / suburban areas than in rural areas. This has been a worrying trend in the medical field for a long time. There would be more contention for those resources in rural areas than there is in high population density areas.
Adding the veil of politics over the top is quite unnecessary, as most of the studies into anti-vaxx have shown that it's fairly balanced demographically in the political sense.
Traditional anti-vax behavior has been a problem on both the right and left, although their reasons for being anti-vax are different. But Covid has become very politicized, which i
Re: Send them where people are taking them (Score:2)
Operation Warp Speed left distribution/injection up to the states, look to your state leaders for answers about disparities.
The effectiveness of vaccine campaigns varies greatly among the states, for example West Virginia implemented a simple age-based strategy (as did Florida, I believe), and WV has gotten a high percentage of their population vaccinated.
That the states that find themselves struggling to distribute the vaccine doses are lead by politicians that fought with the Trump administration is coinc
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And this is the way the US is set up...even today, the Feds do have very limited powers on what they can tell states to do.
While states rights have been eroding badly on past few decades..they still hold quite a bit of power, so while things can be moved at a Fed level, they really cannot tell the states what or how to do things after they land in the individual states' hands.
A grea
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Re: Send them where people are taking them (Score:3)
What you're describing is a form of market-based decisionmaking. The typical mechanism by which signal consumers send signals to buyers is with dollars: if I want it, I'm willing to pay more for it.
We would be able to figure out where these high-demand pockets are if we were charging money for the shots and, for instance, auctioning off appointments. This would be a highest-bidder first system.
While it would theoretically have the drawback of putting rich dudes ahead of poor people who are at more risk of e
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What you're describing is a form of market-based decisionmaking.
I disagree. The current situation obviously isn't market driven, because the wealthier suburbs would have far more doses than surrounding rural areas. Even on a per capita basis.
And a solution doesn't require auctioning off appointments. Just provide a web site for signups, and distribute doses based on the quantity of sign ups. No need for the wealth of an area to factor in, just willingness to take vaccines combined with population density. I could it being argued this is also market-driven, but certainly
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Funny you should mention that.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/... [statnews.com]
Re: Send them where people are taking them (Score:2)
Not only does the study not control for AGE, particularly important regarding Florida given the way they distributed their vaccines, but it explicitly notes that there are gigantic holes in the data they've been able to procure. That being said, we do know Angel of Death Cuomo secretly got his family and friends vaccinated as early as possible.
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I think that's a natural consequence of trying to make the vaccine available everywhere, not necessarily an indicator of an urban/rural difference in vaccine hesitancy. Hesitancy was a big deal back in December, but as the opportunity to get a vaccine becomes real rather than hypothetical, it's been dropping across board.
States are running from about 64% of doses administered (Alabama) to around 88% (Wisconsin); generally more rural states are toward the lower end of the spectrum, but it's harder to distr
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In what state are they doing this? In California you have to prove residency, precisely because they don't want people traveling for vaccines. That potentially spreads the disease as well as messing up the allocation plans.
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Dude, come on. They can't fucking do that. You imagine the news articles?
"Biden Administration refusing vaccines to Republicans"
New England: high demand, provincialism (Score:2)
Here in Central MA, the demand is high and the supply is very low. The state is intentionally not sending doses to "wealthy suburbs" or doctors' offices. They even cut off the supply to my town's Senior Center vaccine clinic, which was getting under100 doses a week, and told the seniors they should drive to a stadium or clinic in an urban area. Many of those clinics are restricted to residents of those cities/towns only.
MA top priority for vaccine access after healthcare, 1st responders, and seniors, was
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MA top priority for vaccine access after healthcare, 1st responders, and seniors, was prisoners and union members.
Every additional strata of prioritization adds to the delay and causes confusion for all involved.
WV went for simple age-based prioritization, and it's worked out great. Why should a healthy 24 year-old teacher running zoom classes from her home be prioritized over a 67 year-old asthmatic man with a bad heart?
Politics.
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I wish they could find a way to identify counties where a greater percentage of the population are eager to take the vaccine.
You can treat it as a network flow problem. Have each area report back how many vaccines they've utilized, and the ones that have utilized more, will get more. Like a TCP flow control problem.
Incidentally, that's how vaccines have reportedly been flowing out to states.
Biden's arm... (Score:3)
It feels strange (Score:2, Insightful)
It is almost as if there is someone competent running the government that also wants the government to function.
There was... (Score:3, Insightful)
It is almost as if there is someone competent running the government that also wants the government to function.
That was last year, you don't seriously think Biden could have had anything to do with vaccine production yet, do you?
Because of Trump, the U.S. preordered hundreds of millions of doses, which got manufacturing ramped up way before Biden was even president. They were already going to be delivering over 200 million doses by bidens "100 days" just like Biden proclaimed a goal of "1 million doses a
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Despite meddling by Trump, the U.S. preordered hundreds of millions of doses
There. Fixed it for you. At what does your disillusion stop? Trump lied constantly and deliberately and you still ignore all of them.
Re: There was... (Score:2)
Trump ordered the vaccine doses in early summer, he did nothing to prevent the orders going thru.
Are you still upset because of his crowd size claims at his inauguration?
Re:There was... (Score:5, Informative)
When Trump said we'd have vaccines by the end of 2020, there were a lot of people claiming that was impossible.
That's basically a lie. The medical community said that having vaccines by the end of year was possible; however, they first had to ensure that the vaccines worked. Multiple companies had started working on vaccines in early 2020. It was always a matter if they got the right vaccine and if they could mass manufacture them.
Trump was always out ahead of the estimate numbers, Biden always behind.
Citation needed. The Trump administration said 20M vaccinated by end of 2020. They met 7% of that goal. 7%.
It's pretty easy for Biden to throw out numbers you already know are going to be met though, Trump was estimating before any were even delivered.
Making up numbers was always Trump's thing. By throwing out numbers, you mean the Biden administration has ordered 200M additional doses (Feb 11 2021). [hhs.gov].
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No, this isn't evidence of competence. I'm not saying he's not, because it's easy to demonstrate he's far more qualified and competent than Trump ever was, but this whole "goal" of 200 million shots is smoke and mirrors. The US was already on track to exceed 100 million doses before he even took office, so it was an easy goal to announce. With the additional dosing centers still being set up around the country, the US is already providing 1.6 million doses a day. So the US was already on track to exceed th
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No, this isn't evidence of competence. I'm not saying he's not, because it's easy to demonstrate he's far more qualified and competent than Trump ever was, but this whole "goal" of 200 million shots is smoke and mirrors
US purchases 200M additional doses of Moderna and Pfizer /BioNTech (February 12, 2021) [biopharmadive.com]. What do you mean by smoke and mirrors?
The US was already on track to exceed 100 million doses before he even took office, so it was an easy goal to announce. With the additional dosing centers still being set up around the country, the US is already providing 1.6 million doses a day. So the US was already on track to exceed the 200 million mark long before Biden even announced his new goal.
That article says total orders of 600M doses to cover 300M Americans. This article says that Moderna alone will provide the additional new doses of 100M by July 2021 [modernatx.com]
Re: It feels strange (Score:2)
Biden is including the 28 million injections (including his own!) that took place before he took office, snd pretending he's started at zero on day one.
He started at 28 million, so his promise to make 72 million more injections in 100 days was laughable.
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While I'm no Trump fan, remember who started/led the initiative that Biden is now going to take credit for.
Descrbe "started/led". You mean the same Trump that simultaneously spent an ordinate time blaming everyone else for the "China virus" and at the same time decrying it was a problem. The same Trump who would say things that his health officials had to contradict almost every day. That Trump? If anything good happened under Trump it was despite his meddling not because of it.
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Re: It feels strange (Score:4, Informative)
Well you know if Trump said this everyone would be crapping on him and how it's not achievable and he's a liar.
That describes nearly every major news organization's response to Trump's prediction of a vaccine by the end of the year, if not by the election. As a reminder, the vaccine came one week after the election, and the reason we had 28M vaccine injections by the time Biden took office was because trump bought 300 million doses before it was even in clinical trials.
But the new administration dismissed that, says they had to 'start from scratch.'
Re: It feels strange (Score:5, Informative)
I'm pretty sure I remember that, upon trying to find these 28 million doses, the incoming Biden administration found that most of the vaccine supply only existed on paper. They didn't actually exist. Just made up numbers to sound good.
We wouldn't even need all of these fucking doses if the orange shit gibbon actually tried to contain the virus in the first place.
But no no, Trump is THE BEST, and he deserves ALL of the credit from now until the heat death of the universe. All the bad stuff that happened during his term though? Definitely Obama's fault.
Thanks obama!
Re:It feels strange (Score:4, Insightful)
Well you know if Trump said this everyone would be crapping on him and how it's not achievable and he's a liar. Now that it's Biden it's a "goal." While I'm no Trump fan, remember who started/led the initiative that Biden is now going to take credit for.
If Trump said it he would have said 400 million because 200 million isn't a big enough number. And he would have insisted everyone immediately reopen and stop wearing masks because the pandemic is over (even though a variant driven 3rd waves is still quite possible).
Trump wasn't criticized for his statements because people didn't like him, Trump was criticized because his statements were repeatedly wrong and irresponsible.
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So you are now putting words into his mouth and then being critical of those words....gotcha. So what exactly has changed with Biden's plan versus 3 months ago?
Re: It feels strange (Score:2)
As a reminder, the vaccines currently being injected in a million plus arms each day were bought and paid for by the previous administration - 300 million doses for $6BN - a full six months before the election, let alone Biden taking office.
Your insurance company shouldn't charge you anything for vaccine the federal government bought.
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Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million... (Score:3, Interesting)
As of Friday, 100 million coronavirus vaccinations had been given since Biden was inaugurated. That benchmark -- which Biden set as his original target Dec. 8 -- was reached on his 59th day in office. After a slower-than-expected rollout under former President Donald Trump, the pace of vaccinations in the United States has rapidly increased and has been averaging about 2.5 million doses per day in the past week.
False. The vaccine rollout, assembled under the Trump administration was already happening as Biden took office and was already going to hit 100 million doses by that date. Biden did nothing here. Way to try to rewrite history!
Re:Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million.. (Score:5, Funny)
When asked about covid, Trump literally said "I take no responsibility."
I think we should honor his wishes.
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Re:Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million.. (Score:5, Insightful)
was already going to hit 100 million doses by that date
Based on what? Hopes and dreams? Decree by the orange moron? Biden took office and diverted a fuckton of *additional* resources to this rollout. Trump gets credit where credit is due: He spent some money to secure some doses. But he was utterly fucking useless at distributing the vaccine. And who can blame him, he was too busy trying to overthrow democracy to govern.
Re:Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million.. (Score:4, Insightful)
But he was utterly fucking useless at distributing the vaccine.
What are you talking about? Vaccine distribution happened as soon as it was approved, and as quickly as could be manufactured. Biden has mostly followed his plan.
The real TDS (Score:2, Insightful)
The Real Trump Derangement Syndrome is that of his supporters! Think about it, the extremely deranged ones (like Q-tards) make it obvious which groups of people are deranged not even addressing their deranged leader who any reasonable unbiased person could call deranged. They are all deranged FOR and/or BY Trump. If you were going to call the cult-like syndrome these people all have in common something... you could reasonable call it Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Like most Trump's verbal attacks; it's actua
Re:Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million.. (Score:4, Interesting)
The previous administration missed multiple vaccine targets:
https://www.latimes.com/world-... [latimes.com]
The US might have made the 100-day-100-million target with the pace from the Trump administration, but hitting the goal 41 days early is purely due to Biden:
- invoking the defense production act.
- making deals to increase production.
- and not letting Jared ship supplies to his cronies (there are still several million doses that are not accounted for).
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And is Biden had done it they would have just been "goals" not "targets" that nobody would complain about.
Re: Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million. (Score:3)
Biden is counting the 28 million vaccine injections he inherited from Trump.
When Biden took the oath of office, America injected 1 million people.
Subtract 28 million from Biden's claimed 100 million, snd you see all he had done is slightly improve on trumps numbers when he left office, about 1M/day.
But sure, Biden's doing a great job signing for the vaccine deliveries Trump ordered and paid for last year.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0... [nytimes.com]
The Biden administration:
- invoked the Defense Production act to help Pfizer expand its facilities.
- got a J&J subcontractor to switch to 24-hour operation so they could meet their obligations.
- brokered a deal so Merck could fill & finish doses for J&J (it lets them allocate more doses for the US now).
- increased funding and reimbursements for state & local vaccination sites.
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That looks suspiciously like ASCII-art!!
If pigs were birds, they'd fly (Score:2)
> If Trump gets to take credit for the economy and unemployment numbers when he took office Biden gets to take credit for this.
If pigs were birds, they'd fly.
If I was Joe Manganiello, I'd be sleeping with Sofia Vergara every night.
We can judge Trump by the huge drop in unemployment (about 30%, then covid hit). We judge Biden by th fact that he has stayed out of the way and let the vaccinations keep coming at about the same rate they were when he took office, plus a little more manufacturing capability.
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What did Trump do exactly to drop the unemployment rate faster than it was already dropping when he took office? The trend was always dropping for years.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/3/21205830/march-unemployment-rate-data-misleading [vox.com]
Same for GDP
https://mgmresearch.com/us-gdp-data-and-charts-1980-2020/ [mgmresearch.com]
So if Biden only gets a "didn't fuck it up" why should Trump get better on the economy? I did not suggest Biden waved some magic vaccine wand, Trump didn't wave a magic economy wand either is my point.
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Re: Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million. (Score:2, Insightful)
Vaccines being injected today were developed, tested, approved and purchased by Trump Admin. Biden can certainly take credit for accepting delivery of the vaccine Trump ordered and paid for last year, if that's what he wants.
The vaccine Biden made a big show about ordering after he took office isn't coming until summer.
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Are you talking Johnson & Johnson? 11 million doses coming next week
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/johnson-johnson-deliver-11-million-vaccine-doses-next-week-biden-n1262166 [nbcnews.com]
Pfizer vaccine developed outside Warp Speed but yes, Trump does credit for that program and it worked well. Sorry his feelings are hurt by not getting enough credit but a net negative response is still a net negative overall.
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Why do you hate facts so much? Is Trump really worth giving up truth for?
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That is an assumption. You assume the economic and unemployment growth stem from the previous administration with cherry picked projections and that case can be made. Biden just assumed office with more than a million people a day already being vaccinated under "Trumps plan"* then he rena
Re: Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million. (Score:2)
Apologies if my statement happened to make you reconsider your unwavering fealty for a moment. I can see things got themselves back on track by the end there.
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"*Trump and Biden didn't do crap, neither did Pfizer, Moderna, etc. The military handled logistics for distribution and actual fscking scientists developed these vaccines, not egotistical talking heads or paper profit machines who take credit for the work of actual human beings."
So... you are saying I've sworn fealty to 'actual human beings'?
Or did you mean this:
"But hey, at least now he is going to put the COVID infected illegal migrants in hotels at a cost of $72k/each so that'll be a change."
Re: Huh? Trump already rolled out the 100 million (Score:2)
All I suggested was that Presidents get undue credit for the economy and other conditions that they don't actually have all that much direct influence on, and that the effect of policies can be masked for a time by outside conditions.
You went on a whataboutism rant about Biden, immigrants and a host of other topics. You felt a real need to strawman me and attack arguments I never made. That's all.
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The problem is people largely don't understand economics. Trickle down economics is basically tax breaks for the wealthy but proper economics DOES require lowering cost to do business and the benefits to network out. Corporate tax cuts are one way to do this.
It isn't rocket science. Companies are trying to make a profit and will follow whateve
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"Trickle down" generally does not mean corporate taxes, which there is an economic basis to argue dropping those 0 since in reality corporations don't "pay" those taxes. Generally its referred to as tax cuts for the wealthy, which ramped up under Reagan and over the last 30 years and even as recently as 2017 and which has exacerbated inequality and has not lead to the growth outcomes they were sold under. And if you are going to drop those corporate rates the individual income rates and other taxes are sup
Biden passed a $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus bill (Score:2)
Biden gets credit because he actually *did* things. But he doesn't have 3 24/7 news networks, hundreds of local news channels owned by Sinclair media, all of talk radio and 90% of Facebook signing his praises.
He's tryi
It's nice to raise expectations for once (Score:3, Insightful)
After the last 4 years of failures, excuses...and really a pretty underwhelming last 20 years in general, this was unexpected and quite nice. It's nice to have elected a group who actually cares about governing once they get elected...not just basking in the glory of adoration from their rallies.
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You know there's a difference between those who make the promises and those who have to fulfill them, yes?
So let's represent what's really happening here: your boss is TELLING you that you need to be twice as productive. He's not going to pay you more, mind, he just wants to look good to the board of directors.
Still feel the same warm fuzzies from that angle?
Yes, it might be nice to have elected a group that cares about governing, but then the Democrats have never been short of promises, trinkets, shiny th
Well he had to raise the bar... (Score:3, Insightful)
"I know it's ambitious -- twice our original goal"
Not to mention that your former goal "100 million in the first 100 days"...was exactly what Trump's administration had handed to him, about 1mill per day.
Not that the sycophants in the press were reporting that, it's mere fact. SOMEONE might have noticed, eventually.
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Not to mention that your former goal "100 million in the first 100 days"...was exactly what Trump's administration had handed to him, about 1mill per day.
What were Trump's goals again and did he meet them? Spoiler: No, he did not. [forbes.com] 7%. By December 31, 2020, the Trump administration achieved 7% of its own goals.
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So what? (Score:2)
They still don't want you to go about your normal lives without kowtowing to them in one way or another.
Stay the course. (Score:2)
Nothing wrong with a goal of maintaining the current pace.
There is much unrecognized value in keeping things from breaking.
Re: Stay the course. (Score:2)
Not breaking things that are already working is his responsibility, not a stretch goal.
Reminder (Score:3)
The United States vaccinated nearly 30 million people before Biden took the oath of office, and averaged a million injections/day for several days before Inauguration Day.
When he said "100 million vaccinations (injections) in first hundred days," he was starting at about 28 million on day one.
Also, every vaccine injection to date is with vaccine doses bought and paid for last summer by the Trump administration - the vaccine doses Biden ordered are expected this summer.
So "Yay!" Team Biden has picked up the pace since he took office, but he did not start from Zero - claims of "no meetings" during transition are false (over 300 meetings held), snd the "no plan for distribution" is provably false, since the previous administration somehow managed to maintain shipments to support 1M injections/day - how did they accomplish that?
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Who claimed there were "no meetings"?
Clearly the Trump administration had no planning for rolling out the vaccine other than to buy some doses. There were reports of the manufacturers having doses with no where to ship them. Individual states had some planning, but a national plan was sorely needed.
Re: Reminder (Score:3)
The Biden team, when they took office they said they had no meetings, were left no plans, had to 'start from scratch' - Google is your friend.
The false claims: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/0... [cnn.com]
The refutation: http://docs.house.gov/meetings... [house.gov]
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The United States vaccinated nearly 30 million people before Biden took the oath of office, and averaged a million injections/day for several days before Inauguration Day.
Citation needed
Is Biden even a real president? (Score:5, Funny)
It's been two months since Biden took over and he has yet to go golfing. What's he been doing all this time if he hasn't been out on the links?
Re: Is Biden even a real president? (Score:5, Funny)
He's not capable of climbing stairs, what makes you think he can go golfing?
Great... (Score:2)
Sadly he MIGHT have had a role in the fast approval of the J&J vaccine. I say sadly because it is significantly less effective and we should be focusing on pro
The USA became a Republic (Score:2)
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By percentage of the population, or by number of doses?
Re:Other countries have done better (Score:5, Insightful)
Percentage of the population seems like the more relevant number. The US also has an advantage that it is home to so many of the pharmaceutical companies making these vaccines; it's easier for the US to get an allocation of doses because it has jurisdiction over the manufacturers.
Re: Other countries have done better (Score:2, Interesting)
It's easier for the us to get vaccines because we paid for the first 300 million doses last summer, 6 months before they were approved for use, EU waited to place orders.
The vaccine going in peoples arms today was bought and paid for under operation warp speed last summer - Biden is merely accepting delivery of the vaccine Trump ordered.
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I was surprised to learn that the USA imported about 1 million doses from the EU. I previously thought the USA was self-sufficient. The EU should have blocked it, it's dumb to allow exports to country which do not, and are ahead in vaccinating their citizens.
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But still, the US has done well in this respect. I think I'm even willing to give some credit to the previous administration. Just getting the first doses out as quickly as it did is something to be admired.
Re: Other countries have done better (Score:2)
Biden was not speaking in his official capacity, his comments yesterday were riddled with Lise, misrepresentations, and misleading statements, just look up any of the fact checking websites...
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Yeah, since the US is the 3rd populous country, it only means the USA beat China and India in raw number of dose.
The USA is also ahead of the EU as a whole. But yes, a few less populous countries did better than the USA, with Israel and the UK being the best examples as they are not micro-nations.
If you do not consider countries using Chinese vaccines (with still no published results in peer-reviewed scientific journals), such as the UAE and Chile, there aren't that many countries doing better than the USA.
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Sure, let's do a full investigation and charge him as necessary but while we are doing that let's find out why the Secret Service got involved when Biden and his family had not had Service protection for 18 months and 17 months from receiving it again. Why were they involving themselves?