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Re:In Philadelphia, a scandal erupts over vaccination startu... by ipsum2 on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:20AM (#25967606)
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, the CEO sounds like a fraudster and has bungled appointments, leaving people disappointed. On the other hand, he did get a decent amount (the website claims 6,000 people over 5 days) of people vaccinated, and has real medical staff on hand: http://web.archive.org/web/20210115174959/https://phillyfigh... (the page has been pulled down), so its not completely fradulent. Additionally, charging insurance companies for the shot isn't bad, if the staff / space rentals need to get paid.

I'm not confident hospitals are doing much better in getting people vaccinated.

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Re:In Philadelphia, a scandal erupts over vaccination startu... by filleduchaos on Saturday January 30, 2021 @07:40AM (#25968595)
> On the other hand, he did get a decent amount (the website claims 6,000 people over 5 days) of people vaccinated

For one, the vaccine requires two doses to achieve anything approaching an acceptable level of immunity. So all those people have effectively not been vaccinated yet, and I'm not confident that the organisation will follow up on all their second doses properly (considering that they're already screwing up appointments for elderly people's first shots).

For another, given everything we know (including outright urging to ignore best medical practices) I wouldn't necessarily take as a given that the shots administered were all done so correctly and safely. I suppose it's a question of the staff's ethics vs the CEO's...everything.

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Re:In Philadelphia, a scandal erupts over vaccination startu... by ipsum2 on Saturday January 30, 2021 @06:20PM (#25974046)
Well stated, and I appreciate your response. People expect that there are detailed plans and the proper way of rolling out the vaccine, but having seen the massive failure of coordinated response in 2020, this is obviously not true. This scrappy response by the team may be flawed and lacked oversight, but its better than waiting around and watching hospitals throw away unused vaccines.
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