Are we there yet?

Post date: 2021-01-15 04:47:46

What is causing the majority of Covid vaccine doses "distributed" to not be administered? Depending on what numbers I see 50-75% have not been given.

What is taking so long to administer the vaccine doses? The CDC is saying that 10.3 million first doses have been given out of 29.4 million "distributed" (35%). The Washington Post says only 36% of doses "administered" out of those "scheduled for delivery" (10.3 million out of 28.4 million as of this writing). All the sources seem to have similar numbers. The US gave about 160 million flu shots last year, over several months. What gives?

Is the problem primarily transportation, refrigeration, personnel, facilities, what? Is the large number of tiers and prioritization making it slow? I understand when the very first doses were getting delivered that it took some time to spin up, but it feels like we should be moving into a mass vaccination phase and that is, numerically at least, nowhere close to happening. LA County, the most populous in California, is saying that they won't even have health care workers vaccinated until the end of the month.

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