Coronavirus in Massachusetts (Oxford, Gill: appointed, home, pharmacy)

[OutdoorLover]

From any perspective, ASAP is the time to get this pandemic under control. Considering schools, it would be a big deal if we could get things largely under control by the end of summer and even if every student isn't vaccinated, have every faculty and school staffer vaccinated, so as to avoid major disruption in another school year.

As far as international student enrollments, those have been falling off since Trump was elected, due to (a) his hostile rhetoric toward foreign students and (b) his concrete restrictions on issuing student visas.

[sawyer2]

Originally Posted by rach5

At least we'll no longer have a president who is actively doing everything to make things worse...I am grateful that Biden is willing to take on this huge mess.

Agreed, Jan. 20th can't come soon enough.

What a disgraceful 4 years, and consequently what a burning bag of dog s___ Biden is being handed in every aspect - I don't envy him.

[BostonMike7]

Originally Posted by sawyer2

what a burning bag of dog s___ Biden is being handed in every aspect

Quoted for emphasis.

[htfdcolt]

Dr. Jonathan Reiner, the GWU expert who has been a fixture on CNN, tweeted this morning that vaccines should be made available to all groups, ASAP. Too many are going unused, too much inefficiency in the phased rollout. Wonder what scheme Massachusetts is going to come up with? We trail the New England states in terms of % population vaccinated to date.

[charolastra00]

There has to be a way of getting these vaccines out. Even if it's a demand-list for people who will drop everything to go get vaccinated if there are extra vaccines available that will otherwise go unused.

[lrfox]

Originally Posted by charolastra00

There has to be a way of getting these vaccines out. Even if it's a demand-list for people who will drop everything to go get vaccinated if there are extra vaccines available that will otherwise go unused.

I forget which county it was, but one county in Florida was using Eventbrite to have people register for a vaccination (it wasn't going well). I'd imagine that as unused vaccines accumulate and pressure mounts to drastically ramp up distribution, officials are going to get creative. I'm optimistic that we'll see dramatically improved distribution in the near future.

[mdovell]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/new-...yor-says-.html

Right and I get this. Tell us again why the Big E isn't being used like this? Given that more than 90K visited the place on average in 2019 every day I would argue that the 5K range isn't that hard given everything. At that rate I'd argue in a few months most of western mass should be able to get it.

[sawyer2]

CDC expands Covid vaccination guidelines to everyone 65 and older

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/covi...and-older.html

[sawyer2]

This is a decent vaccination tracker - US and state totals

9.25M doses administered since Dec. 14th, 380K of which are 2nd dose.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/c...-distribution/

[CaseyB]

Originally Posted by sawyer2

CDC expands Covid vaccination guidelines to everyone 65 and older

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/covi...and-older.html

That's great but the Mass. Dept. of Health has to develop an orderly plan to get them to people.

If you are a patient in a nursing home or you work in a hospital, they come to you. The rest of the people can't just go to CVS or a grocery store pharmacy and get one, yet.