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Andy Meek
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- Some people have found a way to get the coronavirus vaccine early, since the rollout of the vaccine is taking so long.
- Because only a fraction of the expected vaccinations has been completed at this point, federal officials have said the states can give out vaccines that would otherwise expire on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Some people are hanging around vaccination sites like pharmacies at the end of the day, hoping to get a coronavirus vaccine dose that would otherwise be thrown away.
The COVID-19 pandemic has reached such a dire stage in the US, that the incoming Biden administration has reportedly decided to take a dramatic step in response to it. Rather than continue the practice of the Trump administration, of holding back enough coronavirus vaccine to guarantee the second "booster" shot to everyone who got the first vaccine dose, the Biden team plans to just release as much coronavirus vaccine as possible to everyone. The thinking is that it doesn't make sense, to use a military analogy, to worry about conserving ammunition in this war, at a time when more people than ever are dying from the COVID-19 virus.
That last part, by the way, is a reference to the fact that the US on Thursday once again broke a record in terms of the number of people who died in one day from the virus -- more than 4,000, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. It makes the abysmally slow pace of the vaccine rollout so frustrating to watch, with Bloomberg's vaccine tracker showing that only a little more than 6 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered so far (a fraction of the more than 21 million coronavirus cases that have been reported in the US during the pandemic, a number that probably undercounts the true number of cases). So having said all that, can you blame people for looking for workarounds, loopholes, and ways to skip the line to get a coronavirus vaccine early?
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More proof that the COVID vaccine rollout is a complete mess originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 10:33:40 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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