N-TV had a good update this morning over the Covid-19 vaccination program. So to three basic facts:
1. Biontech has delivered around 1.3 million doses at this point.
2. Total 'issued': 370,000 (roughly) across the sixteen states of Germany.
3. Obvious missteps between the federal government and state governments. Whatever expectations were laid out in October on how the vaccination program would proceed....it was handled in crappy fashion.
So, I wouldn't suggest that anyone needs to be fired, but the public had this 'crazy' idea of vaccinations coming on...like some tidal wave, and that simply hasn't occurred.
Why the slow path? Well....in their priority system....they basically said everyone in stage one were going to be 90 years old or older, and the medical establishment (to include the caretakers of the retirement homes).
If you sit and think about this....this meant medical folks had to go visit each retirement home. You'd have three or four folks show up, and then they played a 8-hour game of getting to only the 90 year old folks (not the ones who were 80 or 70). Man-hour wise....you could have done better with a different priority plan.
The other issue which got brought up....you have to sign a declaration if you want the shot. If you have dementia....your guardian has to sign. A lot of these guardians weren't lined up (they should have been contacted back in August) to sign the documents.
The fact that this is only dose #1 and you need to repeat all actions in three to four weeks? Well...it just slows the whole thing down.
At the current pace....will they get to three-quarters of society immunized by December? Mathematically....I'd say no, unless some dynamic changes. All this 'promise-business' and expectations....kinda laying there with no resolution. I would suggest a fair number of Germans are waking up to the pace business and asking stupid questions at this point.
(Would it have been better to just deliver it to regular local physicians and detail out ten Med/nurse-students as deputies under that individual to administer the shots? It's just something to ponder about.)
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