Post by Clipper on Jan 20, 2021 8:42:19 GMT -5
An excerpt from the link listed below:
"In late December, a hospital outside Milwaukee was forced to toss hundreds of vaccine doses when a pharmacist “admitted to intentionally removing the vaccine from refrigeration,” the hospital said. In New York, health-care workers have had to discard vaccine doses in the past weeks after struggling to find recipients who met the state’s eligibility criteria."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-16-000-vaccine-doses-potentially-spoiled-in-maine-and-michigan-by-temperature-problems/ar-BB1cVkAf?ocid=msedgdhp
I find it sad and hard to believe that NY's vaccination plans and procedures could allow it to happen. With so many waiting for the vaccine and the governor complaining that NY is not getting their fair share of the vaccine it is very sad to see people dying while vaccine is being destroyed because logistically the road to reaching people's arms is somehow flawed. Why would they not open the road to the vaccination enough for there to be enough people on a list to use the allotted vaccine. It seems to me that the state has made it too complicated to qualify and too difficult to make the appointment for vaccination.
Here in our area the vaccines have been provided to front line workers first and that group and that phase was completed fairly quickly. They then opened it to people 75 and older or to others under that age who are vulnerable due to underlying conditions. This past week the opened it to anyone over 65 yrs old and no appointment is necessary. The the clinics are open to anyone that qualifies and shows up. The lines are long and people wait in line until the vaccine supply is exhausted. Here in Bristol the site is at the speedway where there is adequate room to line up without impeding traffic on any highways. Heads are counted, those people are allowed to enter a staging area, and the gates are closed and the rest are turned away.
Personally I think that there are advantages to having appointments as well as being able to just line up and get the shot, but there are also drawbacks to both systems. I hope as time goes on there will be refinements to both or a combination of the two made available so that the elderly and infirmed can make an appointment while those that choose to can go to an open vaccination site and line up as they do here now. The ideal situation will be for enough vaccine to be available for physician's offices and pharmacies to be able to provide the vaccination.
No sense of normality is going to be seen until enough people have been vaccinated and those who refuse to wear masks and observe the recommendations for slowing the spread. I am increasingly frustrated by those who refuse to wear a mask when in stores and where distancing from others is difficult, people who insist on gathering in large groups, and those ignorant and selfish who just don't take the virus seriously enough.
"In late December, a hospital outside Milwaukee was forced to toss hundreds of vaccine doses when a pharmacist “admitted to intentionally removing the vaccine from refrigeration,” the hospital said. In New York, health-care workers have had to discard vaccine doses in the past weeks after struggling to find recipients who met the state’s eligibility criteria."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-16-000-vaccine-doses-potentially-spoiled-in-maine-and-michigan-by-temperature-problems/ar-BB1cVkAf?ocid=msedgdhp
I find it sad and hard to believe that NY's vaccination plans and procedures could allow it to happen. With so many waiting for the vaccine and the governor complaining that NY is not getting their fair share of the vaccine it is very sad to see people dying while vaccine is being destroyed because logistically the road to reaching people's arms is somehow flawed. Why would they not open the road to the vaccination enough for there to be enough people on a list to use the allotted vaccine. It seems to me that the state has made it too complicated to qualify and too difficult to make the appointment for vaccination.
Here in our area the vaccines have been provided to front line workers first and that group and that phase was completed fairly quickly. They then opened it to people 75 and older or to others under that age who are vulnerable due to underlying conditions. This past week the opened it to anyone over 65 yrs old and no appointment is necessary. The the clinics are open to anyone that qualifies and shows up. The lines are long and people wait in line until the vaccine supply is exhausted. Here in Bristol the site is at the speedway where there is adequate room to line up without impeding traffic on any highways. Heads are counted, those people are allowed to enter a staging area, and the gates are closed and the rest are turned away.
Personally I think that there are advantages to having appointments as well as being able to just line up and get the shot, but there are also drawbacks to both systems. I hope as time goes on there will be refinements to both or a combination of the two made available so that the elderly and infirmed can make an appointment while those that choose to can go to an open vaccination site and line up as they do here now. The ideal situation will be for enough vaccine to be available for physician's offices and pharmacies to be able to provide the vaccination.
No sense of normality is going to be seen until enough people have been vaccinated and those who refuse to wear masks and observe the recommendations for slowing the spread. I am increasingly frustrated by those who refuse to wear a mask when in stores and where distancing from others is difficult, people who insist on gathering in large groups, and those ignorant and selfish who just don't take the virus seriously enough.
