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The first week's vaccinations should be easy.

Compared to what? No activity you haven't done before is ever "easy". Plenty of things that you never imagined can go wrong. The Health Care Workers should be easier than the general public, but that doesn't mean "easy". Figuring out who "qualifies" is perhaps an important part of the problem, but people in LTCF will probably receive their vaccines in that facility. How that will be made to happen isn't trivial.

All this stuff can be done, and if properly planned, properly resourced, and properly validated can go very well. We will soon see to what extent it has been. We can't afford anything but a "good" performance, because the performance we have managed up to now in containing this disease is horrid, IMHO.

Past performance does not guarantee future performance!

What I meant by easy is that the set of people is known to the state(s).  Almost all of them will be easy to find (patients at a LTCF;  health care workers and 1st responders includ many at LTCFs or known facilities (hospitals, clinics, fire stations, etc.)) and at a place that one could give injections.

As for "compared to what", I meant as compared to any further attempt at giving shots to those that might benefit the most (those most at risk if the get COVID, as well as those most at risk of getting COVID, as well as those most at risk of spreading COVID (except children, who are not going to get the vaccinations))

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The first week's vaccinations should be easy.

Compared to what? No activity you haven't done before is ever "easy". Plenty of things that you never imagined can go wrong. The Health Care Workers should be easier than the general public, but that doesn't mean "easy". Figuring out who "qualifies" is perhaps an important part of the problem, but people in LTCF will probably receive their vaccines in that facility. How that will be made to happen isn't trivial.

All this stuff can be done, and if properly planned, properly resourced, and properly validated can go very well. We will soon see to what extent it has been. We can't afford anything but a "good" performance, because the performance we have managed up to now in containing this disease is horrid, IMHO.

Past performance does not guarantee future performance!

What I meant by easy is that the set of people is known to the state(s).  Almost all of them will be easy to find (patients at a LTCF;  health care workers and 1st responders includ many at LTCFs or known facilities (hospitals, clinics, fire stations, etc.)) and at a place that one could give injections.

As for "compared to what", I meant as compared to any further attempt at giving shots to those that might benefit the most (those most at risk if the get COVID, as well as those most at risk of getting COVID, as well as those most at risk of spreading COVID (except children, who are not going to get the vaccinations))