Oh, Tennessee's Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said, "People are already in place, Piercey said, with strike teams, health departments, community volunteers and EMS as options for staffing the clinics."

If that is the case, then set up multiple, smaller clinics in each county.

Also, there are lots of people without reliable transportation to go to mass clinics. Then they have people have to pay for gas.

Have you ever been so poor you couldn't afford pay for gas?
We have.

You must go to the communities.

I would drive to sevier county to get a vaccine. I figure on going to an outlying county if Knox County is still overwhelmed and shots are available elsewhere.

I'm not 75 yet. When 65+ are eligible I'll call.
One advantage in waiting - will newer vaccines address the S.A. strain?

One country I lived in that had a 'national health' plan had public walk-in clinics in every neighborhood. Today they have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.

Los Angeles mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium.

Los Angeles has a population of approx. 10 million.
Nearly 8,000 were administered in a 12 hour day.
30,000 traffic cones were used to guide vaccine recipients.
Appointments were required.

"vaccine recipients never have to leave their vehicles or even open their doors. The lot resembles a massive drive-in movie theater without the screens. Vehicles awaiting shots run out of gas or break down."

"vaccinations were available to all Los Angeles County residents aged 65 and older. Along with the city employees, police officers and health care workers..."
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"Yet for all the mishaps, Los Angeles has a higher vaccination rate than other large cities and counties — 83 percent of the doses the city has received have been administered, compared with 74 percent in New York City, 52 percent in San Antonio’s Bexar County, and 58 percent of the doses ordered in Phoenix’s Maricopa County."
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"There is Krispy Kreme for breakfast and Subway for lunch (the fruit on the tables is for poking with syringes during training sessions). "
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They had to "reduce the monitoring time for allergic reactions to five minutes."

For 10 million residents at 8,000/day, it will take 1,250 days or 3.5 years. They better open up more mass vaccination sites or ramp up smaller sites in neighborhoods.

It's definitely a great effort. If I have to go to mass vaccination site I guess I will. It is not my choice and I hope they build up more smaller local sites. Oh, and I really, really don't want to go to Dollywood for a vaccine.

Dr. Buchanan has managed to give 34,000 vaccinations, while trying to learn distribution systems management, a profession unto itself. The County has an IT Department. What exactly do they do?

The Health Directors primary duty should be getting trained people administering shots, and for all the complaints she's getting, when one steps back at looks at the job she's doing, she's doing a pretty damn good job of getting it done, all while taking the heat for other functions of County Government that should be stepping up, but that are rolling over and playing dead.

It's almost like Jacobs is doing nothing just to increase the heat Buchanan will be forced to take.

"One of the largest vaccination sites in the country [Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles] briefly shut down Saturday afternoon because maskless, anti-vaccine protesters blocked the entrance, officials said."

No one was arrested!

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“The vast majority of people due for their second doses have gotten them, but there some who haven’t and are now past that six-week mark when it is recommended,” Chris Van Deusen, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services, said in an email.

“We definitely want people to get their booster doses on time because they are important to boosting immunity,” he said.

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By ramping up production and being more efficient, the company expects to reduce the time it takes to produce a batch of vaccine from 110 days to around 60.

Pfizer hopes to cut vaccine manufacturing time by almost half

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The coronavirus has shown it can mutate like the flu and the vaccines will have to be updated to counter new strains, they said.

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