“The goal is really to vaccinate every eligible person” -- no matter how you feel.
"The icy blast across much of the United States injected more confusion and frustration into the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination drive Wednesday, just when it was gathering speed, snarling vaccine deliveries and forcing the cancellation of countless shots around the country. Across a large swath of the nation, including Deep South states such as Georgia and Alabama, the snowy, slippery weather either led to the closing of vaccination sites or held up shipments, with delays expected to continue for days. One public health expert said the delays were unacceptable. “Having vaccine centers take snow days is just going to back things up more than they already are,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “The virus doesn’t take snow days.” Adalja said people in charge of vaccination efforts must find ways to be more resilient, “just like mailmen can deliver the mail through sleet or snow.” He suggested clinics adopt better contingency plans. The goal, he said, must be “a continuous assembly line of vaccines going into people’s arms.” White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said: “People are working as hard as they can, given the importance of getting the vaccines to the states and to providers, but there is an impact on deliveries.” He added that in places where vaccination sites are closed, like Texas, the government is encouraging the sites to increase their hours once they reopen. The United States is vaccinating an average of 1.7 million Americans per day against COVID-19, up from under 1 million a month ago. New figures from the White House show a steady increase in the pace over President Biden’s first month in office. Much of the increase, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, comes from people receiving their second dose. The pace of first-dose vaccinations has been largely steady for several weeks, around 900,000 shots per day."
They have a deadline and some should call a cop before more death is delivered -- all so "we" can “start getting back to a normal life.”
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The troops don't want the stuff and will soon be discharged -- leaving the nation open to attack with I.C.U. beds near capacity across the U.S. after the State Department hosted about 200 guests for holiday drinks and White House tours despite warnings from public health experts regarding the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that is driving the surge of cases in South Africa and vaccine nationalism of the as the UK probes whether the COVID-19 vaccine caused allergic reactions that helped set a single-day pandemic death record in the midst of an alarming second surge of cases.
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"A relative of State Representative Dylan A. Fernandes became an overnight sensation on the internet after he received the vaccine for COVID-19. Martin Kenyon, 91, was interviewed on CNN after receiving a dose of the vaccine in London on Tuesday. A video of his interview has gone viral. Fernandes, a Democrat who represents Gosnold, Falmouth, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, said Kenyon is his grandmother’s cousin and shared the video clip of his interview on Twitter, along with tens of thousands of other people. By Wednesday, it had been viewed more than 5.4 million times. “This is my cousin!!!” Fernandes wrote in the tweet. “He’s 91 & one of the first people to get the vaccine in the world. We all hope to ‘not have that bloody bug now!’ What a legend.” In the interview, Kenyon talked to CNN’s Cyril Vanier about what it was like getting the highly-anticipated vaccine, including some humorous details, such as why he was late for his appointment.
“Of course I couldn’t damn well find anywhere to park my car so I was late,” Kenyon said. “Anyway, I’m here now. I got inside and they put me on the list. I went off and had a rather nasty lunch and then came back and they were ready for me.” Kenyon said the injection was painless. “It didn’t hurt at all,” he said. “I didn’t know the needle had gone in until it’d come out.” When Vanier asked Kenyon how he felt being one of the first people in the world to receive the vaccine, Kenyon provided a frank reply. “I hope I’m not going to have the bloody bug now,” Kenyon said in the interview. “I don’t intend to have it, because I’ve got granddaughters and I want to live a long time, to enjoy their lives.” After the interview went viral, Kenyon was the subject of several newspaper articles and was dubbed a “Vaccine hero” and “Covid vaccine star” by the British press. He even made an appearance on the TV show “Good Morning Britain” with Piers Morgan. During the televised interview Morgan asked how Kenyon was doing now that he was a “global media star.” “It’s rather ridiculous, isn’t it?” quipped Kenyon. Fernandes said his family has gotten a kick out of Kenyon’s newfound fame. “He’s having his viral moment, that’s for sure. The whole family has been cracking up over it,” Fernandes said in a telephone interview. “He’s a legend in the family. He’s just a character and a matter-of-fact guy.” “He had no idea that he was trending all over the world,” he said. “He was incredulous and couldn’t believe anyone would care about what he called a ‘boring interview,’” but Fernandes said he understands why people liked the interview so much. He believes it struck a chord with millions of viewers because Kenyon’s matter-of-fact way of telling the story of how he received the vaccine “brings some relief to everyone that the end is going to be in sight.” After sharing the video of the interview on Twitter, Fernandes tweeted some other fun facts about his relative from across the pond. He wrote that Kenyon “had a really impressive career in international affairs” working “to combat the South African apartheid regime” and was the godfather of one of Desmond Tutu’s daughters. “Side note, Martin was the first person I ever saw take a flaming shot, this was 16 years ago so he was around 75,” Fernandes tweeted."
The Boston City Council signaled it's approval and did a victory dance on the moon because they were so happy that Yogesh Gupta, the chief executive of Bedford-based software firm Progress, has become the newest co-chairman of the Mass Technology Leadership Council because Robert Coughlin is stepping down after 13 years and it is widely understood that the private equity industry lacks diversity.
