(12-26-2020, 03:42 PM)M T Wrote: It was 8 days ago that the Moderna vaccine was approved. I am unable to find any indication that it has arrived in Santa Clara County or Los Angeles County.
SCC's twitter feed and web pages do not indicate any arrival. The Mercury News doesn't indicate any arrival.
LA County seems to have removed the link to their vaccine dashboard from the page on the vaccine. I don't see the link at the their COVID Surveillance Dashboard The dashboard hasn't been updated in 9 days. Their latest (Dec. 21) press release on the vaccine speaks of anticipating the arrival of 165K doses (116,600 Moderna; 48,750 Pfizer).
WHY ISN'T THE MEDIA ASKING WHERE IT IS?
When I look at Google News, I see no questions asked. When I look at the Mercury News, I see no questions asked.
If the government is shipping it, the county health departments should be working as hard as possible to get it into those at risk of DYING.
LA County suffered 427 deaths from Dec. 21 to Dec 24. Obviously those deaths wouldn't be prevented by the vaccine, but future deaths could have been. If 10M people are having 100 deaths a day, how many excess deaths do we expect to die in SCC, in California, in the US by a 1-day delay in getting the vaccine into arms? by 7 days?
On 12/23, OWS indicated they allocated 7.9M doses of vaccine (not just Pfizer, as mis-reported in print on that web page) of which 7.8 was to be shipped by 12/24. On the 3rd week (last partial week in Dec.), they are planning to allocate 4.67M doses (2.67M P, 2M M), for a total of 15.47M in December to early January (vs 20M they were hoping for).
So, if it was 2.9M shipped the first week and 7.8M shipped by 12/24, that should be 10.7M shipped by 12/24.
As of the morning of 12/26, the CDC claims that 9.5M doses have been shipped and 1.9M have been vaccinated. (4.6M shipped by 12/21 was the only previous posting).
[sarcasm]What's 0.8M more or less?[/sarcasm]
Maybe it is the case that LA and SCC are the last counties in the US to receive any. Or maybe "shipped" means "we took it from the manufacturer", despite the fact that CDC labels the data as "distributed" but the fine print says "recorded as shipped".
MT,
I share your concern about the mismatches in the data and befuddlement at the lack of transparency. I am definitely NOT OKAY just sending off all the vaccine to hospitals, government agencies and pharmacies while requiring no accurate reporting and no transparency. We have already seen even hospitals like Stanford Hospital will have their “agorithms” providing questionable prioritization, just imagine what happens when this goes to for-profit companies and unknown government agencies.
So for people concerned about this, I say, rather than just conplaining here online, let’s contact our local officials. In the past, I’ve actually found city councils and supervisors to be accessible and responsive. They may not do what I ask, but they reply, and if enough people demand the same thing, we may get some action.
My question is, what should I demand in a letter to the SCC Supervisor, my City Council and my local newspaper?
Here is my stab: for every dose of vaccine, they should report within 1 week:
1) # doses, mfgr and date received
2) # doses injected
3) a reporting of *who* got those shots, by category. If 5,000 doses went to Stanford Hospital, and 5,000 doses are given within a week to doctors at Stanford Hospital, that’s enough for me. But if 50,000 doses a week go to the Santa Clara Dept of Health to go to “essential frontline workers including police and teachers” week after week, I want a more detailing accounting of what happened to those doses. Because I am going to bet you without transparency, reporting, and accountability, an awful lot of doses are going to disappear to other, non-essential, non-frontline government employees and their households and a giant “friends of government” slush fund supply. Similarly, if CVS gets 50,000 doses a week “for High need communities including ltcfs” They should list which cvss had some, which ltcfs received vaccine, and how many doses for each ltcf. Because I fear CVS will quickly consume many times as many doses as the total population of all ltcfs in the county, and it will just be a mystery where those doses went off to.
If the local CVSs receive 10,000 doses a week for elderly SCc residents 75+, if the report they gave all 10,000 to SCC residents and they checked IDs for age and residency, then I am okay with that although someone should aso occasionally audit the reports. But without this, i fear they will just take vaccine week after week saying it is for a small prioritized group and the vaccine will just disappear, maybe to their high-end concierge clients or large corporations that pay a premium for on-site vaccination of young, non-essential, non-frontline employees (like investment firms, banks, professional sports teams, friends of CVS and anyone with deep pockets).
I said this early on, if the vaccine is desirable (which it is), so so many doses are just going to disappear in ways that defy the statistics of how many people belong in each prioritized category.
So what reports and figures should we demand from our counties and newspapers?