Getting a coronavirus vaccine in record time is hard. Distributing it to tens of millions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

may be equally daunting.

With the Trump administration aiming to deliver 300 million doses of vaccine against the coronavirus as early as January, state officials and health experts say they remain in the dark about key details and therefore are inadequately prepared for what is expected to be the largest single vaccination campaign ever undertaken.

Getting shots into the arms of millions of Americans is a massive undertaking, they say, requiring extraordinary coordination, planning and communication. But with only six months to the government’s target date for approving a vaccine, the administration has shared limited and often confusing information about its plans for distribution, making it difficult for overwhelmed state and local officials, including those who run immunization programs, to prepare.

“It’s probably the hardest thing they’re going to do,” Paul A. Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of a federal vaccine advisory group, said of the effort to distribute vaccines to every corner of America and immunize as many people as quickly as possible.

At a recent briefing for the advisory group by Operation Warp Speed, the administration’s effort to fast-track development of coronavirus countermeasures, Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, who oversees logistics, said the military would move vaccines onto trucks for distribution “the day after” the drugs received regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration, Offit recalled.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/getting-a-coronavirus-vaccine-in-record-time-is-hard-distributing-it-to-tens-of-millions-may-be-equally-daunting/ar-BB17vUTw?li=BBnb7Kz

[mobeau69]

1. Like the writer seriously thought they didn't just say that. LOL

[Walleye]

2. trump doesn't care about that. He just needs an announcement in Oct.

[Andy823]

3. After seeing the mess

trump has made fighting the virus, I hardly believe he and his crew of unqualified people can actually get anything done right. The January date is "after" the election, an he is simply making pie in the sky promises that he can not keep, but hopes people will buy into it and vote for him.

I mean who will be in charge of getting the vaccine out the people, Jarred? Will only the red states get the vaccine if it's even available by January? Is there any kind of "real" plan in the works right now, or one waiting to be implemented?

I truly hope things work out, but I have no faith at all in trump and his administration!