CDC Notifies States, Large Cities To Prepare For Vaccine Distribution As Soon As Late October

[Donaldswife]

Well, Texas has thrown down the gauntlet- mask mandate and all capacity limits gone.

Mississippi quickly followed suit.

 

[Farro]

Illinois just announced more than 100,000 vaccine appointments opening Thursday at the United Center. First in line 65 and over, then after that on to the next phase. Uber offering 20,000 free rides to Chicago residents! This is awesome!

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/cor...en-thursday-chicagos-top-doctor-says/2451451/
Chicago restaurants now at 50% capacity.

 

[Pyotr]

I just want a vaccine......

 

[Heigh-Ho]

Wait what happened to the "by April" thing!?

 

[anniemae]

Wait what happened to the "by April" thing!?

That was retracted when supply issues came up. I believe Fauci and others started saying by the end of summer/early fall everyone would be vaccinated. May is fabulous news. Hope it stays true. Maybe summer won't be a bust after all...... I just hate to get too hopeful.

 

[anniemae]

I just want a vaccine......

Same. I want my life back, as does everyone else. I have really bad vaccine envy. LOL ! We have friends that got the vaccine and are planning summer trips, and heading to Disney soon. I'm so jealous.

 

[Jonfw2]

Wait what happened to the "by April" thing!?

We could absolutely have herd immunity before every single person is vaccinated.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

That was retracted when supply issues came up. I believe Fauci and others started saying by the end of summer/early fall everyone would be vaccinated. May is fabulous news. Hope it stays true. Maybe summer won't be a bust after all...... I just hate to get too hopeful.

Oh so you mean us posters weren't crazy for being skeptical

But I agree with you that--forward progress is def. happening

 

[DLgal]

I get why you think that based on your anecdotal experience. But let me show you something. View attachment 559979

That's 130m fully vaxxed people by the end of March. That's 50% of the eligible population. If Mod and Pfizer keep the same pace, not even an increase. That's 120m more doses in April. Then add in whatever JnJ can deliver, let's be conservative and say another 40m doses. That's 210 million vaccinated people by the end of April. We are going to have a demand problem at that point.

Again, vaccines delivered does not equal vaccines administered.

President has just said "enough vaccine for all adult Americans by end of MAY."

Again, that's just available, not administered.

 

[Heigh-Ho]

We could absolutely have herd immunity before every single person is vaccinated.

That wasn't what I was referring to but that would be great, still think herd immunity is iffy but I do believe that there's more people out there with some undefined lasting immunity just from having undiagnosed covid so I count that as good to think about

 

[Jonfw2]

That wasn't what I was referring to but that would be great, still think herd immunity is iffy but I do believe that there's more people out there with some undefined lasting immunity just from having undiagnosed covid so I count that as good to think about

That’s exactly my premise. And the people here in their 40’s? April still sounds fair to me.

 

[Heigh-Ho]

That was retracted when supply issues came up. I believe Fauci and others started saying by the end of summer/early fall everyone would be vaccinated. May is fabulous news. Hope it stays true. Maybe summer won't be a bust after all...... I just hate to get too hopeful.

Thank you for that explanation

 

[KBoopaloo]

Same. I want my life back, as does everyone else. I have really bad vaccine envy. LOL ! We have friends that got the vaccine and are planning summer trips, and heading to Disney soon. I'm so jealous.

My parents will be fully vaccinated by next week and I am obsessively planning a WDW vacation for them in May even though my mom isn’t even all that interested in going. I keep saying “do you know what I would I do to be able to plan a trip for myself?!”

 

[anniemae]

Oh so you mean us posters weren't crazy for being skeptical

But I agree with you that--forward progress is def. happening

The way things change it's so hard to be optimistic. LOL. I was so happy when they were saying April for everyone, and I started planning for a summer vacation and visits to family. Then when they said early fall I was like, "What??? there goes all my summer plans." Now I am kind of not sure what to feel.

 

[Colleen27]

Again, vaccines delivered does not equal vaccines administered.

President has just said "enough vaccine for all adult Americans by end of MAY."

Again, that's just available, not administered.

For all adult Americans, a quarter to a third of whom currently say they don't want it. So April isn't exactly far fetched if we're only talking about enough doses for those who are interested in getting it ASAP.

It looks like my 19yo is going to be the first of my household to get her jab. Neither of us realized it but she's eligible because of her job, which her boss pointed out this past weekend during her first shift back. According to him, getting appointments at the big govt-run vaccination sites hasn't been terribly difficult (at least from the perspective of constantly-connected, tech-savvy millennials), so she's hoping she'll score one soon.

 

[Jonfw2]

Again, vaccines delivered does not equal vaccines administered.

President has just said "enough vaccine for all adult Americans by end of MAY."

Again, that's just available, not administered.

So based on the conversation the other day, do you still believe you won’t be able to get vaccinated until June or July?

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

So based on the conversation the other day, do you still believe you won’t be able to get vaccinated until June or July?

When that news is followed up by news like this, it’s hard to get your hopes up high that distribution will match vaccine supply.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03...ccine-appointments-because-of-supply-shortage

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

For all adult Americans, a quarter to a third of whom currently say they don't want it. So April isn't exactly far fetched if we're only talking about enough doses for those who are interested in getting it ASAP.

Yeah but I kinda go back to the whole statement of anyone who wants it by April which is the statement that launched the prior discussion. The U.S. isn't projecting based on surveys.

It's not aimed at you at all just bouncing off your comment but we can't just decide a statement means something else later if something ends up being different especially when a discussion was occurring where people were talking about the statement taken at face value. It's not the first time though in this thread where conversations were altered and a viewpoint tweaked simply to suit the outcome when some update happened.

 

[DLgal]

So based on the conversation the other day, do you still believe you won’t be able to get vaccinated until June or July?

I'm gonna stick with June, personally, unless my county gets its act together in the next couple weeks. I would like nothing more than to be wrong.

I was hopeful that I would be able to get it sooner via the military hospital. However, there are on their third week of getting NO shipments, and are basically dead in the water at this point in terms of movement down the tiers.

 

[DLgal]

When that news is followed up by news like this, it’s hard to get your hopes up high that distribution will match vaccine supply.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03...ccine-appointments-because-of-supply-shortage

Not to mention our county having to keep closing the Disneyland super POD due to weather.