In December, the idea that safe, effective vaccines against COVID-19 had been created in less than a year seemed too good to be true. It was an amazing feat in such an angry and sad time, and it was a great light in the darkness. It didn’t take long for that to sour because of the many delays of distribution and the questions surrounding the vaccine.
There’s more than one problem causing the distribution problem. There have been several reports of health officials and hospitals struggling with a lack of resources. On top of that there is a huge challenge of the logistics of this humongous task. This is all taking place during riots and a presidential change in power that America will likely never forget. The Trump and Biden Administrations have differing ways of distributing the vaccine.
The Trump administration focused on delivering millions of vaccine doses to loading docks. States and localities were expected to take over from there with little support, guidance or money. He was prepared to be much more loose with the distribution, while the Biden administration, by contrast, sees a broader mandate for the federal government, helping states organize their vaccination efforts, and seeing the vaccines all the way through to the vaccinators.
There are many people that are at risk having to wait for these vaccines that keep repeatedly being pushed back. Plus when they got there the states were not immediately prepared to distribute at the scale the public demanded, even when they did get expected amounts of vaccine. All of these things have created a perfect storm to make the worst situation possible.
Do you have a solution to this? Do you think President Biden will take the necessary actions to have a better and faster distribution of the vaccines?
While I do not know what a solution to the issue with vaccine distribution would be, I do believe that the Biden administration will put things in place to have more efficient distribution of the coronavirus vaccines. It is more than evident that it is on their list of top priorities to get people vaccinated, and I'm sure that we will see new efforts to make the vaccines more accessible, as well as make the process of distributing faster and more effective. -Kirstyn
ReplyDeleteI believe that as long as we keep providing adequate resources for our health care officials and vaccine distributors, that eventually we will get caught up with the demand of the vaccine. Hopefully this will happen soon and possibly even save more lives. I do think that President Biden will do everything in the government's power to amplify and support this. He is hoping to have 100 million vaccinated in the first hundred days, so it seems we will just have to wait and see how it all pans out. -Brooke
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