Re:18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated
by IgorPartola on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:57PM
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The number I have seen quotes form Dr Fauci is 70-85%. However I have seen no studies so far that show that either of the vaccines used in the US slow down the spread of COVID, just that they prevent severe cases. Also neither has been tested in children under 16 which is obviously a large population.
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Re:18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated
by wcchandler on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:05PM
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.7 * 331m =~ 231m.
If we average 1 million per day, we have 231 days to go, which is Aug 25th.
Re:18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated
by IgorPartola on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:06PM
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That's single dose, so you gotta double it. And account for like 40% of the country that are not sure if the pandemic is real and/or if the vaccine is designed to have Bill Gates track them. And the fact that kids can't get it yet (and who knows when we will know), which would severely slow things down.
Right now we are production-constrained, and somewhat distribution constrained since every state is handling it differently. But soon enough we will be constrained by people's unwillingness to get vaccinated, and then things will get really fucking annoying.
Nah. Just tell them they can't have it and they'll be screaming for it.
1m a day seems low for the US. U.K. is current or around the 400k a day mark and that’s with 1/6 the population.
The UK has something like the 4th most Covid-19 vaccinations per capita of any country in the world, and the gap between it and other western countries is quite big from what I recall. (All the countries with more are much smaller, meaning that they could achieve that with a much smaller vaccination program and fewer doses than would be necessary to do the same in other countries.)