Covid-19 Vaccinations Way Behind Schedule.
Hopes have been dashed for many as the vaccine is taking far longer to get into the arms of millions. (NYTimes.com)
“Compounding the challenges, federal officials say they do not fully understand the cause of the delays. But state health officials and hospital leaders throughout the country pointed to several factors. States have held back doses to be given out to their nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities, an effort that is just gearing up and expected to take several months. Across the country, just 8 percent of the doses distributed for use in these facilities have been administered, with two million yet to be given.
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The President Tweeted that it is up to the state to begin distribution of the vaccine. He decided that continuing the rudderless national response to the pandemic should also be applied to vaccine distribution. Unfortunately, many more lives with now be lost due our duly elected kakistocracy and its refusal to inject any sort of competence anywhere in the Covid-19 battle. What could have been a unified and competent national defense was manifested as mean Tweets and slip shod pronouncements.
