Who Gets the Vaccine Next?
Apparently there are roughly 40 million doses of a vaccine available to US citizens by year's end. That’s enough to immunize about 20 million people as these new vaccines must be taken in two doses about a month apart.
There are roughly 21 million health care workers and 3 million long-term care residents - so there should be just enough for those two groups to start getting the vaccine starting now.
The question I wonder about is - after those groups what is the order? After seniors and healthcare workers, who is next? Who gets to decide? Apparently there’s a big debate over whether essential workers should get vaccines before the elderly. That seems like a question of, do we prevent death or do we return to some semblance of normalcy? I vote for preventing death as normalcy will come back on its own.
From what I’ve read it’s up to each state to decide and there will be differences. For example, Louisiana is putting prison guards and food processing workers ahead of teachers and grocery employees, and Nevada is prioritizing education and public transit workers.
This will get interesting.
COVID and Seniors
I work with senior living communities and a few weeks ago things were looking good. This week is a different story. I’ve heard of many more cases. Most senior communities have cases showing up and are lockdown. I’m worried about this population.
The bright spot on the horizon is that a vaccine will soon be available, and they'll be among the first people to receive it (or so I hope).
At My House
We hit up the drive-in movie theater last week. Ft. Mason has a great setup where you can watch either forward facing or backwards. The sound comes through your radio. The kids love hanging out in our back seat. We saw the old Beauty and the Beast.
Other
Chuck Yeager really lived.
It is hard to work and watch kids. For those of you out there trying to do both, I salute you.
Social media at its best:
Public perception of Facebook is not great these days
This made my week. I’ve always wanted to learn how to breakdance and is one of my main life regrets
We all know what happened here :)
Corona Tracking
Losing someone remotely is terrible.
Nine months after the initial outbreak, the United States, by our best indicators, has never been in a worse position in the pandemic.
More than 100k people are hospitalized which is nearly double the spring peak. The US also recorded nearly 200,000 cases yesterday, the second highest daily total since the pandemic began.
The good news is that The UK will begin administering its first vaccines tomorrow, marking the start of the immunization campaign in the Western world. Here we go!
Things are getting a bit crazy. Let’s stay in side people and stay safe
Only 64 more days to go