Deployment of vaccines suffering from problems

I hate being a bearer of bad news, but 2021 will not be much different from 2020 if the country (and the world about it) doesn’t put together a vaccine action.

As Britain moves forward with a suspicious strategy Mixing different vaccines The product, the first reported new strain of COVID-19 from the UK, was found in Colorado And California This week, Los Angeles continues to tackle the catastrophic surge in coronavirus cases.

Despite the apparently still active dissemination of COVID-19, the hope that came in the form of two highly effective vaccines released at the end of 2020 is now mitigated by the confusion of deployment issues. I am.

More than 14 million vaccines have been shipped nationwide from Pfizer and Moderna, New York Times Report Even the first dose has been received by only about 2 million people. The federal government has set a goal of immunizing up to 20 million people by the end of 2020, but that goal is a long way to go and for no apparent reason.

Officials from the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed ​​have suggested that vacation periods could affect vaccination efforts, but Trump said. Blame Individual state of slow rollout. December, some governors Called the federal government For shipping less vaccine doses to their area than promised.

However, the problem affecting vaccine intake could also be the resistance of the first-lined healthcare professional to receive protection from COVID-19.Both LA Times And NPR Frontline workers in California and Chicago hospitals report avoiding vaccination, respectively.

In Riverside County, California, nearly 50% of qualified healthcare professionals refuse the vaccine. Some refusals come from front-line pregnant workers who are wary of taking the vaccine ( Centers for Disease Control says There are limited data on the safety of vaccines given to pregnant or lactating women), and others are avoiding it because of fear and distrust of the government.

“It’s not shocking given what the federal government has done in the last decade,” Sal Rosselli, president of the National Healthcare Workers’ Union, told the LA Times.

In the December survey Three out of ten health care workers conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation say they will “probably or definitely” not be vaccinated.

Then there are cases where healthcare professionals intentionally interfere with the vaccine or interfere with the distribution of doses to those who are actively seeking the vaccine.

In Tennessee WRCB3 News Report On Friday, Hamilton County Health Department officials repelled dozens of people who had been in the car for hours waiting for vaccinations due to limited supply. Later that day, health officials were found to be in “close contact,” that is, distributing doses to friends and family members of those receiving the vaccine.

Police arrested a pharmacist working at Advocate Aurora Health Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on New Year’s Eve for removing a 570 dose of Moderna vaccine from a refrigerator and deliberately leaving it “useless” overnight.

According to the statement The patient was given 57 doses of corrupt vaccine by Grafton police, who arrested a worker this week but has not yet named him. Hospital officials said there were no health concerns associated with vaccination with the destroyed vaccine, but workers issued a statement admitting that they would deliberately ruin the dose by removing them from refrigeration. wrote. Police also say he knew that those who received the ruined dose would think they were protected from the virus when they weren’t.

The suspect has not yet been formally charged, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Identified A licensed pharmacist, 46-year-old Stephen Brandenburg, was allegedly booked in prison under preliminary accusations outlined by Grafton police in a statement about his arrest.

President Biden has taken over the White House and continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic, so there is a big fight in front of him. Its chief is a collective response to protect himself from illness, with more people on board.