[Genuine Realist]

I am as well. This is all supposed to start happening in two weeks apparently? Nobody in my hospital has heard anything about how vaccinations might work. Planning for this is important when you want to tailor schedules and factor in when people might be getting shots and potentially feeling sick enough to not work that day or the next.

And whatever happened to Bill Gates or whoever manufacturing a bunch of vaccines pre-approval to have plenty ready to go? Feel like I read something at the early stages of the pandemic about that but nothing recently...

There is some vaccine available for shipment now. That is part of the US government's "Warp Speed" effort. Not Bill Gates. I think Astra Zeneca has the most. Not hundreds of millions of doses though. And who knows when that vaccine gets to the public.

Many community clinics are used to high volume vaccination drives. My county clinic could vaccinate hundreds of people a day. We do it with influenza. Just our pediatric department has been giving up to 100 vaccines a day this fall. We could do more if we wanted to. Let the community clinics handle this. This is what we do.

Manufacturing processes expand exponentially when the need and demand is there. I don't know whether best estimates will be met, but worst wil almost certainly be exceeded in the short term. If I had to bet the over-under on June,I'd pick the 'over' by a country mile.

[Genuine Realist]

I am as well. This is all supposed to start happening in two weeks apparently? Nobody in my hospital has heard anything about how vaccinations might work. Planning for this is important when you want to tailor schedules and factor in when people might be getting shots and potentially feeling sick enough to not work that day or the next.

And whatever happened to Bill Gates or whoever manufacturing a bunch of vaccines pre-approval to have plenty ready to go? Feel like I read something at the early stages of the pandemic about that but nothing recently...

There is some vaccine available for shipment now. That is part of the US government's "Warp Speed" effort. Not Bill Gates. I think Astra Zeneca has the most. Not hundreds of millions of doses though. And who knows when that vaccine gets to the public.

Many community clinics are used to high volume vaccination drives. My county clinic could vaccinate hundreds of people a day. We do it with influenza. Just our pediatric department has been giving up to 100 vaccines a day this fall. We could do more if we wanted to. Let the community clinics handle this. This is what we do.

Manufacturing processes expand exponentially when the need and demand is there. I don't know whether best estimates will be met, but worst wil almost certainly be exceeded in the short term. If I had to bet the over-under on June,I'd pick the 'over' by a country mile.