Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics.Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry.Let's face facts: the US government as currently organized couldn't find its ass with both hands on a clear day with a 12 hour advance notice. (Oh yes, once we are vaccinated initially, we are to "trust" that the second shot will be available and on time. She is advised her wait might be to mid-summer. Meanwhile, on 18 Jan, my wife is eligible as the third group will be 65 and older. Today's mail (now some 10 days in) said only 40K vaccines were available and I was beyond that initial allocation so I might have to wait 6-8 weeks. Plus, I was allowed to sign-up for a vaccination. Fifth day, my email went through and I was placed on an "Emergency" County-wide website-based system that now spits out emails to me daily. Two days trying it, but with no response when "sending". Busy signal (and I called every hour on the hour for 12 hours). "I called for the first two days once the info was made public. I just received this warm little note from a good friend in Virginia, also in Group I: So maybe sometime in April, I can get vaccinated. So maybe in 2-3 weeks the VA location that is 15 minutes away may get the vaccine. I'm a full-time caregiver for a Parkinson's patient who is bedridden while waiting for a hospital bed in the middle of The Worst Medical Crisis In The Country to have her hip replacement repaired. That's on top of an hour each way on the world's worst freeway (the 405). I was told I could expect to be there about 90 minutes. The earliest I could get it is March 8 (for those of you who don't have ready access to a calendar, that is SEVEN WEEKS FROM NOW). I called again at 11pm and spoke to a person. The phone line broke down after 2-3 minutes on hold each time I called before I gave up after an hour. The ONLY LOCATION FOR ALL OF LOS ANGELES is the VA hospital in West LA! I got a robocall last night at 6:30pm from VA-Greater LA that they have the vaccine, for people in Group I (me).
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We’re going to throw the full weight and resources of the federal government behind ending the pandemic.” But he says “this is a national emergency and we need to treat it like one. “The current administration has never had a federal or comprehensive strategy,” Zients said, noting that on a lot of these types of questions they simply haven’t received the kind of transition briefings that would let them get full visibility into example what the current situation is. Sweating the details is not really the Trump way, but it’s an example of how bringing on a team of competent, experienced, professionals can make a big difference in what is on some level a big logistics problems. Rather, it’s an example of the potentially large gains that can be achieved by looking carefully at the whole playing fields and sweating the details. It’s a small thing, obviously, and I don’t want to make it sound like it’s the whole Biden strategy for fighting the virus. On the call, Zients cited the need to invest in these more efficient syringes and posited that it’s an area where Biden will invoke the Defense Production Act to ensure that America’s production capacity of syringes is deployed to this purpose. We do need to invest more in the syringe supply chain. The catch? Not all syringes provided by Operation Warp Speed and Pfizer are low dead-volume syringes so not every vaccine distribution site is getting the extra doses. What this indicates is the importance of thinking along the entire supply chain for opportunities for optimization. But in this case, we managed to increase supply by at least 20% use a relatively inexpensive redesign of the syringe. Increasing vaccine supply by 20% by building more factories could cost billions.
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