Bidens vaccine plan has great ideas but isn't faster. Why not?

Renewed Marathoner wrote:

What is going on? Someone please explain this to me? Why aren't all these changes amounting to a much faster rollout??

Because you can't increase production in 100 days. It takes time to set up and verify line and to crank the stuff out. If you wanted more doses now, you need to take action months ago.

The US only reached 900k+ doses last week. And in doing so, a lot of states burned up supplies on hand and are running out quickly. There is no strategic reserve of vaccines that were supposed to have been held back by the Trump administration. So, what we are going to see is the vaccination rates dropping as supply dries up. And then when new supply becomes available, there will be a crunch trying to get caught up with limited capacity to administer doses. The other big problem is that some states are getting more supply than others. That will mean that the states that have fallen behind will have to scramble administration resources to get caught up. The vaccination pipeline is not a single hose with a single spigot. It is fifty different hoses with tens of thousands of different spigots.

Why should anyone care about Trumps or Bidens vaccine plan?

Its called under promise and over deliver. And its a useful slogan that will (hopefully) be easily achieved.

We've had 4y of over promise and under deliver.

But, there are forces at work...vaccine supply will be limiting for a time and then hopefully not limiting at all. If JJ gets approval, that will be massive.

Also, the numbers put out are so conflicting nobody know what is going on, My Governor is adamant supply is limiting but CDC numbers on doses shipped don't support that contention. In the absence of more data, I'll accept the Governor's claim.

Also, vaccine doubters will become a bigger and bigger proportion of the remaining unvaccinated pool..that could slow things.

My wife had a friend who was married. This friend developed an attraction for another man who would listen to her, promise her everything, pay for things, etc. (many of the things her husband would not because he was had to be financially responsible). So she divorced her husband and married the "other" man. Fast forward a couple years later and she is miserable again, because her new husband is having to be all of those things her last husband was at that point in their marriage. It is easy to promise the world when one is not the person in charge. It is another thing to do them when one is the one responsible.

A Scientist2 wrote:

Its called under promise and over deliver. And its a useful slogan that will (hopefully) be easily achieved.

We've had 4y of over promise and under deliver.

Did we?

Precious Roy wrote:

The US only reached 900k+ doses last week. And in doing so, a lot of states burned up supplies on hand and are running out quickly. There is no strategic reserve of vaccines that were supposed to have been held back by the Trump administration. So, what we are going to see is the vaccination rates dropping as supply dries up. And then when new supply becomes available, there will be a crunch trying to get caught up with limited capacity to administer doses. The other big problem is that some states are getting more supply than others. That will mean that the states that have fallen behind will have to scramble administration resources to get caught up. The vaccination pipeline is not a single hose with a single spigot. It is fifty different hoses with tens of thousands of different spigots.

Incorrect.

The US has only used 46% of doses.

There is some truth there and thanks for your input.

States haven't used half their supply of vaccines though.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html

Are you referring to other supplies?

Or is there no more vaccine stocks to release after we burn through this in less than 2 weeks.

Goes to show you how both of these evil characters have no issue with harming their own populations.

There is tremendous confusion between federal, state, and local authorities as to the # of doses available and held in reserve, from what I can tell.

Makes it very hard to plan. I think PR is right that states have been consuming supply faster than it's being replenished right now, to make up for a slow start. It's hard to tell because the Trump admin did not communicate well at all.