The Pfizer plant in Michigan is working 3 shifts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no break for holidays. Why aren’t vaccination clinics working at the same level of urgency?https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/health/2021/02/07/how-covid-vaccine-made-step-step-journey-pfizer-dose/4371693001/ …
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Replying to @ATabarrok
Why do you think vaccination clinics are held back by hours, not supply? I think supply is the key bottleneck in most places. (I don't doubt there are still some locales that could speed up but overall... The overwhelming bottleneck seems like supply).
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Replying to @zeynep
The continual back and forth--it's not supply, it's distribution! It's distribution, not supply!--isn't helpful. It's both. Vaccination has been running behind production and is now about neck and neck but needs to be ready for more supply which is coming.pic.twitter.com/vaTXbKc6lj
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Replying to @ATabarrok
I think at the moment it really is supply though. We will have ramped up supply soon, it looks like so the better question might be are we ready for that?
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Replying to @zeynep @ATabarrok
As more supply comes on, we'll be rolling out distribution to many more locations -- thousands of CVS, Walgreens, Walmart etc stores. That's the mechanism for added distribution capacity, not 3am appointments.
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Also to lots more medical practices.
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Replying to @jbarro @ATabarrok
The one concern I share is that it may be that the supply is about to go up drastically, and we may hit another distribution wall. But where I am, we've been supply constrained and vaccinating under capacity for almost a month now.
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We're just getting some new data that Pfizer/Moderna may be able to relax some of the cold-chain requirements too. I know this sounds hard to believe but *if* things hold up as scheduled, we may well soon have an excess. J&J should go probably go to poorer countries.
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Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias and
More attention should be paid to why in the hell no one knew more about the Pfizer/Moderna cold chain requirements until now. "Well, looky there! They don't need a deep freeze the whole way after all! Who knew?"
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Because it takes time to test these things. You should seek your conspiracy under another rock
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Replying to @zeynep
I never suggested it was a conspiracy, only incompetence.
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