Better to have 3 million people fully vaccinated than 6 million half vaccinated I guess.
Right now, health experts -- and the coming biden administration -- suggest the opposite. That it's better to have 6mil get the initial vaccination because that cuts community spread much faster, and saves hospitalizations and ultimately lives, than for 3mil people to be fully vaccinated.
Canada started doing this:
Yet some provinces – including Ontario – are planning to keep half of their initial shipments in the freezer in case the vaccine supply chain breaks down
www.theglobeandmail.com
that article is paywalled on subsequent visits, but this article in the Atlantic covers a lot of it too if you ctrl+f for "vaccine" about half way thru:
There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
www.theatlantic.com
The idea is that the supply pipeline can then provide subsequent vaccinations.
Obviously we're way behind on the vaccination schedule. The Trump Admin had said they intend for 20m vaccinations by Jan 1, and we were only at 2million. Now, we're up to about 6million which is accellerating and that's good, but for every person that gets vaccinated right now there's a "Second dose" which is sitting unused in a freezer... So if 20m got that first dose, there'd be anotheer 20m vaccines just sitting there as we count down a timer until they can get the 2nd dose ~3weeks later or w/e. In that time, 20million more people are potentially providing full community spread; where as, if all 40m doses are releasd and given, then those community spread numbers plummet as partially vaccinations still have a very strong efficacy rate... and seem to prevent the most serious conditions, which cuts down on hospitalizations, community spread, and ultimately death.
www.vox.com
www.wsj.com
