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Suddenly, DeWine is ready to move to Phase 1b in two weeks in Ohio. Even though:

“As of Sunday, 61% of nursing homes received their first visit from a pharmacy to receive their vaccines — those who wanted to receive the vaccine were able to get it. But only 40% of staff have been taking the vaccine when it’s offered. With residents, it is around 75-80%,” said DeWine.

Which makes me wonder a couple of things.

1. Hasn't supply and distribution been an issue so far? How does adding another 2.2 million eligible people help this?

2. Or is this a sign of how many eligible 1a people just aren't getting it? It's time to move on to 1b?

I think he is saying that Ohio is ready to distribute, the state is not what is holding things up. Rather it is the lack of vaccination shots. Playing the blame game.

I just realized the article I linked to in that last post excludes this info: we're supposed to get another 100,000 vaccines in two weeks and that's what is being used to kick off the 1b phase.

We've only hit 61% of hursing homes and vaccinated 40% of workers and 80% of residents - which actually means only about 25% of all nursing homes workers and 50% of nursing home residents statewide have been vaccinated.

(I'm talking myself through this as I type.)

So is the idea that we have enough vaccine and keep the first "crew" moving around to nursing homes as it's just a matter of time and logistics, not supply? Then when these other 100k come in, we now have a group that comes to the vaccine, instead of vice versa, and that happens "alongside" the 1a group rather than "instead of".

I guess that makes sense.

It just seemed odd that we'd be moving on before even getting close to finishing the first group, but maybe it's not at all. I just didn't expect to see a move to 1b when such small numbers of 1a had been hit. Perhaps that's actually a good thing?

Logistics are more complicated for phase 1b. People who work in hospitals/doctors offices have people on site who give vaccines. They sent people from pharmacies to nursing homes to vaccinate employees and residents.

How will you vaccinate 65+ people who live on their own? Could go to their doctors office but they need to have the right supply of vaccines at the right locations at the right time. And doctors offices typically do not have the required cold storage. Same issue with people with existing medical conditions. A little easier with respect to schools with groups of people in the same building (though many schools are remote right now).

Not insurmountable but those logistics have to be worked out for effective rollout to 1b.

Number of people in 1a refusing the vaccine presumably also plays a role. If you have 100,000 more vaccines available in the next couple of weeks, you would expect similar percentages of 1a people will refuse meaning you need to have willing recipients lined up.

Following up on this. There is recent guidance from the feds to state governors saying do not stick to the stated priorities for vaccinations if doing so slows down the number of people getting the vaccine. Find willing people to vaccinate.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/01/06/azar-states-s...565463002/

*desperately raises hand*...

** Waving both hands wildly **

Well, it's good to know there's some common sense at play. There's no reason people further down the line should be denied because people closer to the front are dragging their feet.

Looking for people raising their hands may be as good as we are doing now.

DeWine said today they will start vaccinating people 80+ January 19th. 420-450k in Ohio in that group. They expect to get 100k doses that week. That is in additional to the part of any shipment already designated for people in 1A. Not sure if they are counting the second doses that should be starting soon (if not already). But whatever the case, everyone 80+ cannot show up that week.

Plan is to lower the age limit by 5 years each week. January 25, those 75+ are eligible. FEbruary 1, 70+ are eligible.

January 25th individuals with medical isues will be able to receive the vaccine.

Will start vaccinating school employees February 1. School needs to commit to being fully in person or hybrid by March 1 to qualify. And you have to let the state know how many employees will commit to getting vaccinated.

Don't think he specifically said anything about loaves and fishes.

GoBucks89 said:

January 25th individuals with medical isues will be able to receive the vaccine.

Yeah, I haven't seen this defined as any more than "severe congenital, developmental, or early-onset medical disorders" - I'd love to know what this includes.

Some Florida counties are using Eventbrite to schedule vaccinations. You know, the thing we used for off-season events.

We've used Eventbrite as one of our online schedulers at work for special events. If my staff login still works from our Fall 2019 fundraiser I'll schedule you all for appointments for next week.

Eventbrite Inc is a publicly traded company. It might be time for a short-term investment.

It's also noteworthy that I saw on the news today that the 2nd vaccine is beginning to be distributed. That could possibly help where there have been distribution issues.

Most of my friends that have gotten the vaccine have gotten Moderna. Only this week have I seen any of them get the Pfizer. If that was the case then in theory the distribution could double.

My wife's company said that they plan to have all of their 90,000 employees vaccinated by the end of January. Not making it mandatory or anything, but available to all of them.

The only people in my circle so far are nurses, and a couple of retirees in Colorado. I don't know anyone local to me yet.

Many of my volunteers at work are within the age group that are now eligible in Florida. Two have gotten it, one has an appointment for next week, and a few more still haven't had luck securing an appointment. They are all in the the "highly active and you'd never guess they were in their mid-late 70s" senior group, and I'm so glad everyone in my group is planning to vaccinate and has been relatively safe through the last 10 months. What I've learned since March is that retirees that choose to volunteer their time at the library are much smarter and more science based than those that retire to The Villages or Ft Lauderdale to play golf and dry hump.

Watching the behavior of my mom and her friends, it has completely soured me on The Villages. Can't wait for that documentary about it.

Florida is absolutely a **** show...

‘It Became Sort of Lawless’: Florida Vaccine Rollout Turns Into a Free-for-All https://nyti.ms/3nxp9B5

Florida better protect their 65 and older or they won’t have anyone left to live there.

Jeff said:

Watching the behavior of my mom and her friends, it has completely soured me on The Villages. Can't wait for that documentary about it.

Florida is absolutely a **** show...

‘It Became Sort of Lawless’: Florida Vaccine Rollout Turns Into a Free-for-All https://nyti.ms/3nxp9B5

I look forward to that documentary. Funny enough, we took a drive through The Villages when passing through the area on a day trip at the very end of February last year, just a couple weeks before everything went to s**t here in the US. I see the appeal, but it's nowhere I would ever want to spend my retirement years. It essentially seems like a continuation of high school and college, minus the school work, and with way more sex and social cliques.