Despite advances, it will be months before everyone who wants a vaccine can get one, task force says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

The Biden administration's Covid-19 team spent its first virtual briefing Wednesday addressing vaccine distribution problems and questions about a vaccine stockpile that top officials said does not exist.

Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House Covid-19 response team, said it will be "months before everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one."

The administration currently faces two constraining factors on vaccine distribution: quick-enough supply and the ability to administer vaccines once they are produced and at distribution sites, he said.

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that most American adults will have access to a vaccine by the end of the summer. The White House is currently on pace to meet its vaccination goal of 100 million vaccines in Biden's first 100 days, Slavitt said, but added that "any (vaccine) stockpile that may have existed no longer exists."

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[sheshe2]

1. I watched today.

I liked the honesty and the intelligent conversation. I don't like what we heard, yet they inherited nothing from the last 'resident. They are starting from scratch.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. No surprise.

I have seen nothing about how quickly any of the vaccines can be produced. A million doses a day? Ten thousand? The numbers really do matter, and there's a complete cone of silence around them.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. Fauci explained this on CNN's covid townhall

last evening. He said even if the federal gov't wanted to use the Defense Prod Act to have more companies produce the vaccine, it wasn't realistic as manufacturing a vaccine is hard and it would be extremely difficult for another company to just step in and start making the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. They are concentrating on making more of the products needed for the vaccinations like the finely calibrated syringes to get the 6th dose out of the Pfizer vials, etc.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I didn't see that, but it certainly makes sense.

Too many people seem to think that making the vaccine is really easy and fast. The very fact that the first two vaccines approved need to be stored at insanely low temperatures ought to be a clue that making it isn't the easiest thing in the world.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. It's Out There, PO

Both Pfizer & Moderna are expecting 3 million doses per day by late April. They're around a million now, but the US is not the only customer.
The supply will there consistent with the timeline in the OP.
Right now, distribution & administration are the bottlenecks, not vaccine production.

[Nitram]

3. No problem, I can wait. Once American industry ramps up we will have enough vaccine to share with

the world. Trump blocked the entire process in his effort to deny there even was a pandemic.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "most American adults will have access to a vaccine by the end of the summer."

Something I have been posting multiple times. Pressuring the current manufacturers to do "more more more faster" will often lead to shoddy product (sub-potent, super-potent, contaminated, adulterated, etc).

If we had jumped on this pandemic a year ago, and had prepped for vaccine distribution at least 6 months ago, then we would have at least had more of a logistical handle on this vs the bogus "Operation Warp Speed" that seemed to include under-the-table promotion/purchases of products that were benefiting certain administration staffers.

[Lonestarblue]

5. I don't really get the problem with vaccine distribution.

I get that the supply is a big issue, especially since the Pfizer one requires special equipment, but if we had more Moderna vaccine it could go to pharmacies throughout the country and to health clinics and urgent care centers. There are plenty of ways to administer the shots—there just isn’t enough vaccine. I was hoping the Moderna vaccine especially could be produced in larger quantities.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Supply Is Not The Issue

They are both right on schedule toward full forecasted production. By late April they should be able to make 3 million doses each, per day.
They expected to be at 1/3rd of that by the end of this month. They're at around 975,000 a day, a full million a couple days.
The distribution issue was terribly managed and is THE bottleneck. Production is as predicted.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Pfizer and Moderna are producing as

much vaccine as possible as quickly as they can. I'm sure they can ramp up further, but patience is needed. I always figured it would be around Spring before vaccines got down to the general public. Once J&J's vaccine gets EUA, that will add to supply and help since it only requires 1 shot.

Here in western PA, we are already seeing a big drop in cases. Some of that is probably due to the length of time since the holidays, but I'd bet some is also due to hospital staff and LTC residents/staff having been vaccinated.

[olddad65]

11. Im 72 years old and I getting my first vaccine today at a VA clinic near me

They contacted me.