Let's see how the DeSantis vaccine distribution is going... 'Like the Hunger Games' out there: How Florida's COVID vaccine distribution went haywire In terms of getting the vaccine, "It's like the Hunger Games out there," one state official said. https://webcache.googleusercontent....tis-seniors-shot-vaccination-plan/4140397001/ Florida had a phased, orderly, step-by-step plan in place for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to the public, starting with the most vulnerable months before a vaccine was even approved for emergency use. Following guidance laid out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the state would focus on long-term care residents, hospital workers at the front lines of the coronavirus battle, workers essential to the running of society, and people with medical conditions that put them at higher risk of getting the disease. The plan outlined procedures for distribution, inventory management, storage and handling, second-dose reminders, provider recruitment and enrolling, and communication with the public. Florida Emergency Management director Jared Moskowitz, who was put in charge of the logistics of distributing the sparse amounts of doses, said at the time, “We have a solid plan.” Before the first week of vaccinations had even finished, Gov. DeSantis was going off script, pushing for more vaccines to go to elderly populations in nursing homes sooner than scheduled, and excluding folks in other long-term care facilities. A week later, he was opening up availability to everyone in Florida 65 and over, and going against the recommendations of the CDC by leaving out essential workers. Chaos ensued as allotments were directed all over the state and accusations of favoritism started flying. Hospital systems and gated 55-plus communities were accused of giving the vaccine to their board members. County health department websites crashed. Folks couldn’t get through on the telephone. Older Floridians stood in line overnight for hours where counties had decided to offer the vaccine on a first-come, first-serve basis. And seniors who are the intended target of those modifications are angry. They complain they are not able to get information from the state or county health departments and local hospitals. “Sometimes plans don’t work out,” Moskowitz said during a Zoom conference call Wednesday night hosted by Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani of Orlando. “Situations on the ground change.” A 'hitch in the giddyup' The two biggest "situations on the ground" that affected the rollout were beyond the state's control, Moskowitz said: Getting only a one-week advance notice on the amount of doses shipping to the state, then watching that expected shipment slashed in half. The confusion and lack of information from state and county health officials has sparked criticism from legislators, seniors and others. But Florida isn’t the only state experiencing a "hitch in the giddy-up," as Democratic Sen. Linda Stewart of Orlando put it, contradicting DeSantis that the process was going smoothly. All states have been stymied by a system set up by Operation Warp Speed, the federal government's nationwide vaccine distribution program. Instead of helping get the vaccine distributed faster, DeSantis said he'd take allotments away from hospitals and pharmacies that aren't vaccinating people fast enough. (New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, went further: He said he'd fine hospitals $100,000.) "It's so frustrating to see that the distribution is as botched as the containment of this virus," said Dr. Leo Nissola, a cancer specialist who works with the Covid Act Now tracking project. "It isn't a surprise ... honestly, (both) President Trump and Gov. DeSantis downplayed the virus." Watching his colleagues debating giving half doses or parsing the dosing schedules is "appalling," said Nissola, who practices medicine in San Francisco. "Fining hospitals and providers when the health care system is at a breaking point is tyrannical," he said. "They are pushing their failures in the logistics of the distribution onto those who worked harder than anyone this (past) year." It isn't entirely the fault of state and local health providers, though. "Thus far, millions of vaccine vials are sitting in warehouses, approved life-saving immunotherapy therapeutics are going unused, while thousands die from the novel coronavirus every day," Nissola said. National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins told The Washington Post that the nationwide distribution got off to a “rocky beginning.” “We had this remarkable plan that (Operation) Warp Speed had put in place to have doses ready to go the very next day after the FDA approval, but that’s a lot of logistics,” Collins told the Post. “So maybe we shouldn’t be too shocked that it didn’t go like clockwork.” Now, at a time when the state and nation are experiencing a surge in new cases, hospitalizations and deaths, the pressure is on health care workers to immunize as many people as possible in the coming months. That's even as they start to give the critical second dose, or booster shot, to those who already received their first shot during the first week of the rollout. And the public is struggling to get answers. USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida examined the COVID-19 vaccination draft plan for Florida, which hasn't been updated since it was published and submitted to the CDC in October, to figure out where the state strayed and where it stayed on course, and where the best laid plan diverged from reality. 'You can’t do any long range planning' One of the biggest problems according to Moskowitz is that the system set up by Operation Warp Speed gives states a one-week advance on their scheduled allotments. “Nobody thought we’d only have a 7-day look ahead,” Moskowitz explained. “You can’t do any long range planning when you can only see as far as next week.” He said he couldn't "confidently say the second dose was coming on time." The "Pfizer Five," the first five hospitals in Florida to get the vaccine during the first week of the rollout, did get their second doses. "We want them to get those doses out," Moskowitz said, explaining the rationale for reallocation. "Vaccines sitting in freezers are not going to end the pandemic." Uncertain of those future doses, he said, hospitals have been reluctant to run through their initial allotment, holding some back for those critical second doses. Also, the state assumed after the second week that it would be receiving around 500,000 doses a week, enough to warrant opening distribution to all Floridians 65 and older even before all the state’s nursing home residents had been vaccinated. But doses dropped from just under half a million the second week to fewer than 300,000 the third week, and around 250,000 a week since. “Nobody thought our allocation would decrease 50%,” Moskowitz said, defending the governor’s decision to open up the drug to the senior population, which is responsible for over 80% of the deaths from COVID-19 in Florida. It’s reminiscent of the early days of testing, Moskowitz said, when demand outstripped supply: “We are doing our best, working out kinks. We can write the best plan, but can’t always anticipate the curveballs.” PHASED ALLOCATION The plan envisioned a phased allocation around the availability of the vaccine. Based on federal guidance at the time, the first groups targeted were health care personnel, essential workers, people with underlying medical conditions that put them at high risk of getting the coronavirus, and people 65 and older. That's a big group: Over 1.1 million licensed healthcare staff, 154,000 long-term care residents, 220,000 long-term care staff, 4.5 million people 65 and over, and tens of millions of essential workers ranging from police and firefighters to utility workers and electricians, teachers and even journalists. When it became clear that only 2.9 million doses would be available for nationwide distribution, and that Florida would get about 180,000 doses of the two-dose Pfizer vaccine in the first go-round, the CDC recommended giving them to healthcare personnel and long-term care residents. Florida further narrowed that to hospital staff that had direct contact with COVID-19 patients, and nursing home residents and staff. When more doses became available in the second week, and Florida was slated to receive nearly 500,000 doses of both Moderna and Pfizer, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the vaccine be offered to people 75 and older, and to essential frontline workers not in the health industry. The committee also recommended that seniors 65-74, people 16-64 with high-risk medical conditions, and essential workers not included at first be offered the vaccine. No timeline was offered for when those phases should be initiated, but the state's draft plan contemplated that the state would expand its offering as more vaccine became available. DeSantis pushed back against the recommendation to offer the vaccine to millions of essential workers, issuing an executive order prioritizing people 65 and older. Up until now the state has focused on its 700-plus nursing homes at the neglect of residents of the 3,000-plus assisted living and other long-term care facilities. Those institutions will start seeing vaccine distributed to their residents starting Monday, Moskowitz said. Low supply, growing demand Moskowitz said the state's vaccine distribution plan is sound and ready to deliver whatever the federal government sends them. It’s really a question of supply available to meet the pent-up and growing demand. DeSantis triggered that demand when he opened the vaccine to everyone in the general population 65 and over, well before the hundreds of thousands of folks identified for the first round of vaccine had been completely inoculated. A week after the governor opened the door to some 4.5 million seniors, the federal government cut the state's allotment in half. The plan called for a centralized state-coordinated distribution of the vaccine, using as a template the state's already well-established vaccination program, forged by lessons learned during the H1N1 pandemic, seasonal flu vaccinations and the recent Hepatitis A program. The state also activated Florida's immunization information system, called Florida Shots, and is coordinating with hospitals, pharmacies, county health departments and emergency medical service organizations to help distribute the vaccine. Moskowitz explained that while the vaccine is being distributed through the state health system, it is not being delivered directly to the Department of Health or Division of Emergency Management. "We are not a pass-through system," he said. "Vaccinations are being done through the health system, which is locally led. It is a decentralized effort among 67 health departments and over 300 hospitals." Getting vaccines through 'concert ticket system' Some counties, like Orange County, have done an excellent job registering people for appointments, Moskowitz said. But other counties that created a first-come, first-serve "concert ticket system" didn't do as well, he said, making older citizens either stand in long lines or sit in their cars. Distribution has fallen short, with about 29% of some 1.15 million doses actually put in people's arms, Moskowitz said. That's below the national average of 30.6%. The decentralization has caused a lack of oversight, with reports around the state of county health departments giving portions of their allotment to gated 55-plus communities while firefighters and police are left unprotected. To help goose distribution and get more of the available vaccine out, DeSantis has announced deals with hospital systems, the Publix supermarket chain, and black churches to get people inoculated. He's also ordered Moskowitz to hire 1,000 contract nurses to help with the effort, 800 of whom are already deployed through the long-term care local pharmacy program. Meantime, teachers, prison inmates and corrections officers, migrant workers, Native American communities, the uninsured and people with developmental disabilities wait for their turn to be put on the list. “I can’t point to who’s going to be next," Moskowitz said. "When the vaccine allotment increases, I will be happy to share our thought process then. Right now it’s like walking and chewing gum at same time." With such a low and unreliable supply, an inability to plan more than a week ahead and the high demand, Moskowitz acknowledged, "It's like the Hunger Games out there." ROLLOUT BY THE NUMBERS First Week 179,400 doses, all Pfizer Second Week 495,000 —127,000 Pfizer/ 396,000 Moderna Third week 289,000 doses — 162,000 Pfizer/ 157,000 Moderna Fourth Week 253,00 doses, evenly split between Pfizer and Moderna Fifth week 254,00 doses, split evenly between Pfizer and Moderna Total by 12/15: 1.3 million doses 500,000 to hospitals 500,000 to county health departments 118,000 second shots (third week) 103,000 second shots (fourth week) Jeffrey Schweers is a statehouse reporter for the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida. He can be reached at jschweers@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @jeffschweers.
Let's see if the DeSantis administration can answer basic questions on Florida's failed vaccine distribution as demanded by the state's Republican Senator. Rick Scott to Surgeon General Scott Rivkees: Explain Florida COVID vaccine plan "We must work to ensure every American who wants a vaccine can get one," Scott said. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/n...ination-plan-letter-covid-vaccine/6601499002/ Florida's chaotic roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine has got the state's junior U.S. senator asking questions. GOP Sen. Rick Scott sent a letter Friday to Florida Health Secretary and Surgeon General Scott Rivkees, asking a slew of questions about the state's vaccine distribution plan — many of them the same questions reporters and the public have been asking. "By the end of next week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will have delivered over 30 million doses of vaccines to states, with Florida being allocated 1.47 million doses," Scott said in his letter. "The delivery of the vaccine to our communities represents a new front in the battle against this pandemic and we must work to ensure every American who wants a vaccine can get one." Florida's congressional delegation, made up of both Republicans and Democrats, sent a letter Friday afternoon to Gov. Ron DeSantis asking many similar questions. While the demand for a vaccine is high, supplies are still limited and millions of doses are still sitting in warehouses waiting to be shipped out. In Florida, so many people signed up for the limited number of doses that reservation websites crashed and people have waited in line overnight to get vaccinated. Jared Moskowitz, the state's emergency management chief responsible for the roll-out, acknowledged during a zoom call that it's "like the Hunger Games out there." Scott acknowledged the challenges related to a swift, equitable distribution, but raised a plethora of concerns: How is the state identifying everyone 65 and older and ensuring everyone who wants a vaccine gets one in a timely manner? How long will it take to vaccinate all 4.5 million people in that age group? What is the status of first responders – police, firefighters and paramedics – who were identified as priorities in the state's draft vaccination plan? Why did Florida choose to vaccinate skilled nursing homes in December but delay activating the programs for assisted living facilities until next week? How are you addressing snowbirds and other visitors to Florida? What efforts are being made to better communicate with the general public, reduce lines and fix the problems people are having getting through by phone or email? How are people supposed to know where to go to get a vaccine? Is there a plan to make information more available?
So in North Carolina my in-laws (in their 80s) called up for their COVID vaccine appointment a week ago. They spent a mere five minutes on the phone to get their appointment for today. Today they were vaccinated and very quickly in & out in a very well organized vaccination center. They were also given a Feb 1st appointment for their second dose. Let's see how things are going in DeSantis' Florida vaccination efforts... ‘It became sort of lawless’: Florida vaccine rollout turns into a free-for-all https://www.baltimoresun.com/corona...0210111-a72ouf4ogjdkhhgdluj5om2tz4-story.html MIAMI — Linda Kleindienst Bruns registered for a coronavirus vaccine in late December, on the first day the health department in Tallahassee, Florida, opened for applications for people her age. Despite being 72, with her immune system suppressed by medication that keeps her breast cancer in remission, she spent days waiting to hear back about an appointment. “It’s so disorganized,” she said. “I was hoping the system would be set up so there would be some sort of logic to it.” Phyllis Humphreys, 76, waited with her husband last week in a line of cars in Clermont, west of Orlando, that spilled onto Highway 27. They had scrambled into their car and driven 22 miles after receiving an automated text message saying vaccine doses were available. But by 9:43 a.m., the site had reached capacity, and the Humphreyses went home with no shots. “We’re talking about vaccinations,” said Humphreys, a retired critical care nurse. “We are not talking about putting people in Desert Storm.” Florida is in an alarming new upward spiral, with nearly 20,000 cases of the virus reported Friday and more than 15,000 Saturday. But the state’s well-intended effort to throw open the doors of the vaccine program to everyone 65 and older has led to long lines, confusion and disappointment. States across the country, even as they race to finish vaccinating health care employees, nursing home residents and emergency workers, are under pressure from residents to reach a broader section of the public. Florida, which has already prioritized a large swath of its population to receive the vaccine, illustrates the challenges of expanding a vaccination program being developed at record speed and with limited federal assistance. “How do you do something this huge and roll it out?” said Dr. Leslie M. Beitsch, chair of the behavioral sciences and social medicine department at Florida State University. “It’s not in any way surprising — to anyone who followed it closely, for sure — that there would be halting kind of progress and missteps getting something of this magnitude underway initially, whether we’re talking about Florida or the entire country.” Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend giving the next priority after the earliest groups to essential workers and people 75 and older. Some states, including Florida, Texas, Oklahoma and Alaska, decided to vaccinate people 65 and older, even before most essential workers, and other states are following suit. But with states and counties left to largely sort out logistics by themselves, the rollout has gone anything but smoothly. People camped out overnight in the Florida winter chill in Fort Myers and Daytona Beach for vaccines administered on a first-come, first-served basis, a spectacle that made national headlines. Health department offices in Sarasota and several other counties, unequipped to schedule vaccine appointments on their own websites, resorted to using Eventbrite, a service usually associated with invitations to dinner parties and art exhibitions. Palm Beach County was accepting vaccine requests only by email, said the county’s health administrator, Dr. Alina Alonso, after the county’s phone system “absolutely died.” People in the queue were warned that they might have to wait months for an appointment. In the meantime, some wealthy people with connections to health care facilities have been able to get the vaccine more easily. Adding to the complications, the Florida Division of Emergency Management announced Sunday that its coronavirus testing and vaccination site at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens — the recent scene of long lines of people awaiting vaccination — would be shut down for much of Monday to make way for the College Football Playoff national championship game. Experts say Florida is an example of what happens when officials attempt to distribute a vaccine that is still in very limited supply to a broad spectrum of the population. In a state with about 4.4 million people 65 and older, more than 402,000 doses had been administered as of Friday, according to federal data, the fourth-highest total in the nation. But Florida has used only about 30% of the vaccine doses it has received, behind 29 other states. Some people have been successful, including Janice and Walter Greer, who were in the same line as the Humphreyses in Clermont on Wednesday. Janice Greer had called Lake County repeatedly, hoping to get information about vaccine availability. Walter Greer has a brother in Ohio with COVID-19. “I couldn’t go and see him,” he said softly, welling up with tears. “He has pneumonia.” But while the Greers got in line early enough to receive shots, many more people left without one and were quite upset. “My heart is beating 100 miles a minute,” said Shirley LaBoy, 65, of Polk County, who got to the recreation center only to see a line of cars and a digital road sign saying “NO VACCINES TODAY.” “I found myself on the computer all day. I feel, emotionally, all stressed out,” said LaBoy, who has been unable to see her children for fear of contracting the virus. “We are tired of being locked in. Then I get an opportunity to get the vaccine, and I can’t even get that.” Aaron Kissler, the health administrator for Lake County, said officials wanted to get shots in arms quickly, even without a more organized appointment system available. “Right now we just wanted to get out as much as possible,” he said. In Texas, about 527,000 residents had received at least the first vaccine dose as of Friday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. About 107,000 of them were 65 or older, out of more than 3.7 million Texans eligible in that age range. But there have been problems similar to Florida’s. Dr. Bob Kelly, a 77-year-old retired veterinarian in Austin, Texas, said he made 20 or more phone calls searching for a vaccine before he finally connected one night at 3 a.m. on a hospital internet link that offered an appointment for several days later. He and his wife drove 25 miles to the appointment, only to be told that supplies were so limited that the vaccine would only be given to people with aggravating health conditions. So they are back to where they started, with their names on five waiting lists at pharmacies, chain hospitals and a doctor’s office. “That’s what’s going on,” Kelly said. “The rollout is slow, the method of administration is not efficient, and who gets it is kind of arbitrary.” In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has acknowledged that the initial rollout has been bumpy. But he has steadfastly defended the state’s decision to open the door to all seniors, saying he could not in good conscience see a 20-something who bags groceries getting vaccinated before a grandparent, not in a state where of the more than 22,000 people killed by the coronavirus, 83% have been 65 or older. The plurality of vaccine doses have gone so far to people between the ages of 65 and 74, not to people 75 and older who are the most vulnerable to the virus. Some of the lag in numbers may be a result of older people who are being extra cautious about getting a new vaccine developed in record time. But older seniors may also be at a disadvantage because the process has often required a degree of computer proficiency and has generally not been clear or consistent, Beitsch said. “Each of our 67 counties seems to be taking a slightly different pathway — and that’s remarkable, because we have a single department of health that is supposed to cover the entire state,” said Beitsch, whose 71-year-old tech-savvy brother got vaccinated in Orlando after filling out a request form that took him about 40 minutes. The Florida Department of Health is working on an online appointment system for all counties, but it is not yet ready, though the DeSantis administration says it has been preparing for the vaccine rollout since July. It stockpiled millions of supplies and enrolled more than 270 providers to receive the shots once they became available. DeSantis said his administration moved more aggressively than other states, getting teams of health workers and National Guard members to nursing homes the week before CVS and Walgreens pharmacies began vaccinating those residents. Florida is also distributing doses to Publix supermarkets and churches to increase community access. “We’re going to be there for our parents,” he said in a news conference Sunday. “We’re going to be there for our grandparents. And that will do more than anything else we can do to reduce mortality and change the scope of how this virus behaves in the state of Florida.” The lucky vaccine recipients have been thrilled. “Everything was great,” Susan Hacker said after getting her shot Thursday at the Century Village retirement community in Boca Raton. The state has no residency requirement for people to get the vaccine in their home county — or to be Florida residents at all. News reports in Argentina have recounted how wealthy people vacationing in Miami managed to get vaccinations. More worrying to officials have been private institutions distributing the vaccine to people who are not in any of the priority groups. MorseLife Health System, a nursing home and assisted living facility in West Palm Beach, is under investigation by the Florida inspector general and the health department after The New York Post and The Washington Post reported that it steered vaccines to rich donors. In an interview Tuesday, Hong Chae, the organization’s chief financial officer, said that a number of the nursing home’s board members and volunteers were offered the vaccine in case facility managers became incapacitated by the virus and board members needed “to come in and chip in,” he said. Some hospitals in Miami have vaccinated board members as well, according to local doctors and patients. One of them, Rosario Rico Toro, posted news of receiving the Pfizer vaccine to Facebook friends Dec. 30. “Baptist vaccination day!!” she wrote alongside an image of her COVID-19 vaccination record. In an interview, Rico Toro, a onetime Miss Bolivia who now does charitable work for hospitals, said she had received the vaccine as a result of her donations and volunteer work for Baptist Hospital in Miami. When one of the hospital’s doctors canceled an appointment to get the shot, the hospital offered her the spot. “They called and said, ‘As a board member, would you like to get it?’” she recalled. The hospital did not respond to requests for comment. Rico Toro, who is 49 and in good health, said she initially hesitated. But the hospital gave her the impression that if she turned down the vaccine, it would be offered to another board member or possibly not even be used, so she took it. “My question is, why not?” Dr. Perri Young, an internist in Miami, said that the distribution process has been shambolic and ineffective. Even as a doctor, she said, her access to information is minimal. “It’s crazy here,” she said. “It became sort of lawless.” By the end of the week, Kleindienst Bruns in Tallahassee had gotten some good news: Her internist had received vaccine doses. Would she like one? She got it Saturday. “It was so easy,” she said. c.2021 The New York Times Company
California has had big problems as well. But the press makes excuses for him blaming the manufacturers or Trump in the articles I read.
Let's see what Republicans in the Florida state legislature have to say about the DeSantis administration's vaccine rollout... Frustrated Florida senators rip into DeSantis administration for vaccine rollout with 'no rhyme or reason' https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs...n-for-vaccine-rollout-with-no-rhyme-or-reason A leading Senate Republican on Wednesday chided Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees about the state’s COVID-19 vaccine-distribution efforts, saying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration hasn't been forthcoming with the public. Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach, said during a meeting of the Senate Health Policy Committee that there is statewide frustration over the vaccine rollout and that Rivkees and Department of Health Assistant Secretary Shamarial Roberson need to provide the public with a “clear direction” about the state’s plans. “If there is an orderly process that is clear and communicated well, most people are patient — they will wait their turn and know that new supplies are coming. And I can wait my turn. But when there’s no information, and there’s no rhyme or reason who’s getting it, that’s the frustration,” said Bean, who is a top lieutenant of Senate President Wilton Simpson and chairs a panel in charge of the health-care budget. “So when you leave here and have a debrief of your meeting today, please talk about there’s great frustration over lack of communication.” Bean said the Nassau County Commission was slated to have an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss vaccination efforts. Bean, who represents the county, said thousands of people signed up through a Nassau County website to get vaccinated but there was no supply. More than 4.4 million people age 65 and older qualify for vaccinations under a Dec. 23 executive order issued by DeSantis. But the state has received far fewer doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines than would be needed to vaccinate those seniors — or the broader population. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two doses to be effective. Given the math, Rivkees told members of the Senate Health Policy Committee that “it is going to take a while” to get all those who qualify vaccinated. Therefore, he said the message that needs to be delivered is patience. “How you convey patience during a pandemic is a very difficult conversation to have. Frankly, it’s heartbreaking,” Rivkees, who doubles as secretary of the Department of Health, said. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 29.38 million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been distributed nationwide. Florida has received 1,680,200 doses, according to a CDC tracker. A separate state health department report showed the state had administered 707,428 doses as of Tuesday and that 61,158 people had received the required two doses. Meanwhile, the number of people who have contracted COVID-19 continues to increase significantly. Florida on Tuesday topped 1.5 million reported cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic started early last year, and at least 23,396 Florida residents have died. While the approval of the vaccines has ushered in new promise in the fight against the spread of COVID-19, supplies have been limited. Initially, the vaccines were targeted at front-line health care workers and staff and residents of long-term care facilities. DeSantis’ Dec. 23 executive order expanded eligibility to people 65 and older and all health-care workers with direct patient care. Additionally, the executive order gave hospitals the ability to vaccinate people they deem to be extremely vulnerable to COVID-19. The DeSantis administration asked hospitals, along with county health departments, to take the lead on vaccinating the public. But the state provided no blueprint for the hospitals to follow, and the state’s rollout efforts have been widely criticized as botched. To help bolster the effort, DeSantis has enlisted Publix supermarkets in several areas of the state. The Senate Health Policy Committee met for the first time this year on Wednesday, and the meeting was the first opportunity for senators to ask top state health-care officials pointed questions about the rollout efforts. But Rivkees avoided directly answering most of the questions. Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, asked Rivkees what percentage of people in the state needed to be vaccinated to achieve community immunity and when he thought the goal would be reached. “At the present time, we are still looking for guidance from the CDC for what they define the vaccination coverage will need to be to achieve population immunity,” Rivkees replied. Noting that more than 22 million people live in the state and considering the current number of people who have been vaccinated, Sen. Ben Albittron, R-Wauchula, asked Rivkees whether it’s “fair to say” that it would take 22 months to get shots into the arms of everyone who agreed to be vaccinated. Rivkees didn’t directly answer, saying he was hopeful that additional vaccines would receive emergency approval from the federal government. Albritton tried again. “When we’re looking at talking to people back home, being realistic with them matters. Because if not, they’re not going to believe us the next time,” Albritton told Rivkees. “A million doses a month, 22 million people, that’s a maximum of 22 months. And the hope is additional inflow reduces that timeline. Is that fair to say?” Rivkees avoided answering the question a second time and said he thought the federal government would approve additional vaccine candidates for emergency use. Rivkees said he’d be “very surprised if we are in a situation where the only two vaccines that we have are going to be the current ones available.”
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Think you need to fill it out for thin skinned narcissist Ron DeSantis -- known as "little Trump" -- Must hurt his butt to have his own party in the legislature calling out his failed COVID response adding that his vaccine rollout with 'no rhyme or reason'. Must hurt to have the state's Senator Rick Scott demanding answers regarding the failed COVID vaccine rollout and ensuing chaos - now known as the "hunger games". So much "winning".