10ofRods
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I don't disagree on one level.... Countries with universal healthcare have managed programs, distribution and EXPECTATIONS better. However, we have grown up with the knowledge that the US is highly capable of major programs and very complex infrastructures.
The lack of assimilating of tracking, tracing and researching the ongoing disease changes are not because we don't have universal healthcare, but because we have not built the consolidated infrastructure to follow through and be accountable....with anything.
My image of the IKEA furniture being dumped into the States still stands....
Dr Ashith Jha, from Brown University:
"The federal government created Operation Warp Speed to deliver vaccines to states. The amount of vaccine doses shipped to states has been lower than initially expected - dropping from estimates this fall of 100 million in December to recent updates of 20 million by early January - Jha noted, "But this is really not the worst part.
"The worst part is no real planning on what happens when vaccines arrive in states. No plan, no money, just hope that states will figure this out," he wrote.
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, says he's 'incredibly frustrated' with the slow rollout of the coronavirus vaccines. He blames the federal government for not planning better and working more closely with the states on the "last mile" of getting vaccines into arms.
State health departments, typically underfunded, have been left to administer the vaccines, Jha wrote. There was "no effort" from the federal government to help states "launch a real vaccination infrastructure," he wrote. He suggested that the federal government should have started planning vaccination sites in October or November.
"The real issue is there was never a last mile plan," Jha said in the podcast. "There was never a plan to figure out how do we get vaccines from the states into people's arms."
No travel history. Has Colorado had good history of contact tracing? Hope so. I hope you will keep us informed.
So...you were waiting for this specific Colorado case to be announced? Or are you expecting to hear lots of US confirmation?
With soooo many cases spread throughout the US, how in hell are we going to isolate this information?
At this point, it doesn't matter. It's here. We won't be able to do much with the information, as you point out.
I don't think CO has a good record of contact tracing.
Our only hope is to get better at handing out the vaccine - which we will do - eventually.
By late 2021, hopefully...if we continue to see increases in numbers as we're seeing right now, it's bad for next winter (with only about 5% of Americans having had COVID - if we're "optimistic" about it).
We're starting to lag in our reporting of both COVID and deaths...esp here in California (and we're 12% of the population). No way to say what's really going on at the national level right now...much missing data from several states.
About 8 million Americans have active COVID (probably way more - and especially since "active" is poorly defined.
What a mess.