Joe gets blowback re: moving teachers to the front of the line.
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Immediately after Biden announced that there would be vaccine available for all adults by the end of May … and that all teachers, school staffs and child care workers would get at least 1 vax shot by the end of May, we observed:
1. Achieving the “available supply” is not exactly a moon-shot. It simply requires continuing to deliver vaccines (to & from the government) at current run rates, adding in the new incremental J&J supply.
If the goal had been set at getting all 250 million adults 18 and over fully vaccinated by the end of May — that would have been a moon shot
For details, see VAX: What exactly did Biden promise?
2. Getting at least 1-shot into all teachers arms by the end of this month isn’t possible without compromising some “science” and medical ethics.
You see, stores in the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program already scheduled out their anticipated vaccine supply for March.
So, letting teachers cut the line would require cancelling appointments already on the books for “vulnerables” and other “essentials”.
For details, see VAX: Did Biden’s brain trust set him up to fail?
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While we were first, it didn’t take long for the piling-on to start … from science & data advocates, ethicists, “equitarians”, “zeroists” and politicos.
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