No Max Vax

Maximum COVID-19 vaccination - "max vax" - is the key to ending this pandemic.  When the first two vaccines to go through trials were made available last month, their arrival was greeted with fanfare and hope, hope that it was the beginning of the end.  

Nothing could have prepared us for what may be the the greatest disappointment in medical history.  After all but promising twenty million vaccinations by the end of the December, the federal government fell seventeen million vaccinations short of its goal.  And given the current rate of vaccination, it could take a decade - ten years! - for enough vaccinations to achieve herd immunity.

Trump is too busy trying to stage a coup, and so he can't be bothered with ironing out the bugs in the vaccine system.  Things look really depressing now.  But there are encouraging signs.  First of all, Joe Biden will become President two weeks from tomorrow. Second of all, in the first few days of 2021, an additional 1,500,000 have been vaccinated - meaning, half as many people have been vaccinated in three or four days as had been in the previous two weeks.  So the pace is beginning to quicken.  And as soon as Biden takes over, we should have a focus on implementing a national vaccine distribution system, which the Biden transition team is probably looking at right now.

Hold on . . .

Oh yeah, I am not posting anything tomorrow, because I think I'd rather step back as Congress devolves into total disarray.  Meanwhile, I'll be following today's Senate runoffs in Georgia. I'll see you on the other side of tomorrow.