11-30-2020, 10:28 AM
You are right, and I suspect there were many things "worked out" in advance. However, you can't work everything out in advance without knowing vaccine-specific data, such as how many doses will be available and when, what the storage requirements will be, how many doses will need to be given, and even who will be distributing the vaccine and how. Saying "healthcare workers first" is easy; it is much harder to do so when you have to worry about healthcare workers in rural hospitals getting two shots of a vaccine that needs to be stored at -80. Not to say it can't be done, of course, but, my guess is that the broad outlines have been in place for a while (in fact, were required by the federal government at least a month ago), but the final details are dependent on exactly which vaccine(s) are approved and when.
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