Vaccine registration technology is failing. Here’s how the Biden administration could fix it https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/14/covid19-vaccines-technology-registration-websites/
At least he is renaming the Trump administration's failed COVID vaccine rollout initiative. "Warp Speed" what a joke. Biden Administration Will Rename 'Operation Warp Speed,' Citing Trump 'Failures' https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...me-operation-warp-speed-citing-trump-failures The White House push to vaccinate against the coronavirus will have a new name and new leadership under the Biden administration. The "Operation Warp Speed" name will be retired, incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted on Friday. She said there was an "urgent need to address the failures of the Trump team approach to vaccine distribution." Psaki did not say what the new name will be. Psaki added that many of the same civil servants will be involved in the response, but the structure will be changed. Earlier on Friday, the Biden transition team announced that Dr. David Kessler will be the White House's chief science officer for the COVID-19 response. Kessler led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1990 to 1997 and is known for his efforts seeking to prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS. For months, he has been a top coronavirus adviser to President-elect Joe Biden. The Trump administration has been criticized repeatedly for its response to the pandemic and has recently faced questions about the speed and effectiveness of its vaccine rollout. It fell considerably short of its goal to immunize 20 million people by the end of 2020. The Biden transition team has said it wants to distribute 100 million vaccine doses during the administration's first 100 days in office. Psaki said Kessler "will focus on maximizing the current supply of vaccines and work with manufacturers to help get more vaccines online as quickly as possible."
COVID-19 vaccine rollout hasn't worked, but change is coming, vaccine panel predicts USA TODAY's expert vaccine panel is optimistic the nation's chaotic early vaccination effort should improve under the incoming Biden administration. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/n...nation-rollout-look-forward-biden/4168188001/ he federal government needs to learn from Disneyland, bank teller lines and airline reservation systems, USA TODAY's panel of vaccine experts said. Nearly unanimous in condemning the messy COVID-19 vaccine distribution rollout so far, the group also expects the operation will improve under the Biden administration. What has been lacking, nearly all said, is strong leadership at the national level. "Federal leadership failed to prepare fully to neutralize this pandemic. They concentrated on the vaccine with much less regard to vaccination," said Dr. Kelly Moore, deputy director of the nonprofit Immunization Action Coalition. "There’s a need for stability, reliability, and a process people can trust." Improved direction, funding, coordination and communication – which Biden has promised to provide – should solve the problem of getting vaccine from pharmacy freezers and shelves into people's arms, panelists said. "Those factors, along with consistent, fact-based communications, will help us begin to build up the public’s confidence in these vaccines and in vaccination," Moore said. So far, the government under President Donald Trump has delivered more than 31 million doses of the two vaccines across America. But only 12 million – or about 39% – have been used. What's needed, the panelists said, are mass vaccination clinics that together with other distribution methodscan deliver more than 1 million shots a day. Biden has promised 100 million shots will be given during his first 100 days in office, which starts Wednesday. A national scheduling tool would be a first step, according to several panel members, including Prashant Yadav, a medical supply chain expert and senior fellow with the Center for Global Development, an international development think tank based in Washington, D.C., and London. Disneyland knows how to schedule to maximize riders and minimize lines by giving people hourly arrival windows instead of precise times, he said. Customers waiting for bank tellers join a common line, which moves faster than five separate ones. And airlines prioritize seating to keep first-class passengers happy, he noted. Why can't the same be done for people who should be prioritized to receive vaccinations? Right now, every state is on its own to figure out how best to schedule. But, Yadav said, “providing a scheduling software is a thing we should do federally, so we have economies of scale and scope – in communicating about it, in training people to use it and in getting the data back." More funding for pandemic-weary state and local health departments also is essential, according to the panel. Although Congress allocated $3 billion in December for vaccine distribution, that money has yet to arrive in states, and when it does, it will take time to make a difference. The 15 USA TODAY panelists, who have expertise in everything from virology to logistics, remain optimistic the vast majority of Americans who want a vaccine will be able to get one by summer. Every month since June, we have asked panelists what time it is on an imaginary clock that started ticking at midnight a year ago, when people were first infected with the new coronavirus. It will reach high noon when vaccine is widely available to all Americans. Each month, we calculate the median time – the midpoint of their estimates. Starting at 4 a.m., the clock moved forward an hour every month, except November, when it jumped ahead 90 minutes, buoyed by the results of the first two vaccine trials. This month, the clockbarely budged, advancing only6 minutes, from 10:30 a.m. to 10:36 a.m. Speeding up vaccinations Some of the panelists envision mass vaccination campaigns with most people scheduled to keep linesmoving and vaccinators busy. “We need high throughput,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine and infectious disease expert at the University of California-San Francisco. Volunteers without medical training can log people in before passing them to others who can administer consent forms. Then, trained medical personnel can deliver the shots, while a final medical group watches people for 15 minutes after vaccination to make sure they don't have adverse reactions. To get as many people vaccinated as possible, the vaccinators should never be waiting, Yadav said. "The scarcest resource in the system is the vaccinator. This system doesn’t let the vaccinators’ time go idle,” he said. Gandhi said there should be online reservations, but also drop-in slots. "Because of the digital divide and language barriers you need both,” she said. Such sites should be in addition to shots given at doctors' offices, clinics pharmacies and local health centers. But the mass vaccination centers would allow large numbers of people to get immunized even while smaller settings reach those more reticent about the vaccine or live outside population centers, said Gandhi. Nursing and medical students can be conscripted into the effort, along with other nontraditional health-care workers, said Prakash Nagarkatti, vice president for research at the University of South Carolina. "All states should have engaged such volunteers several months before the vaccine rollout," he said. While several panelists praised the Trump administration for getting two vaccines to the finish line, with three more closing in, they criticized the lack of foresight to get vaccine from loading docks into arms. "There was total lack of planning at the state level for mass vaccination and the federal government did not help the states overcome the hurdles," Nagarkatti said. "We spent so much time on science and manufacturing and politics and we completely dropped the ball on logistics," said Peter Pitts, president and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a nonprofit research group. It's something the United States has never been good at, said Arti Rai, a law professor and health law expert at Duke University Law School. "Since the days of Vannevar Bush in World War II, the U.S. has done very well on the life sciences R&D side, somewhat less well on the manufacturing side, and poorly on the fragmented delivery side," she said. Beefing up communication Pitts said he's seen a shift in public attitudes in recent months from people dismissing the "Trump vaccine" to asking when and where they can get their shot. "People understand both of these vaccines have been approved by the FDA without any shenanigans," he said. "People are actively excited and anxious to get vaccinated." But Pitts has been incredibly frustrated by the lack of public education. With more than $10 billion spent on developing, manufacturing and distributing the vaccines at the federal level, so far little money has gone to communicating about when, where and why people should get vaccinated. The Department of Health and Human Services has promised a long-delayed education campaign aimed at encouraging Americans to get vaccinated will launch in January but no date has been set. Federal officials underestimated vaccine hesitancy and have failed to address many of the public's questions, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor and infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. Schaffner said his own hospital conducted surveys, then launched an education campaign to help people understand the vaccine's record and development process. “We had Q&As for all different categories of employees who work at this medical center," he said via email. "We actually saw the needle moving among all sectors." Vanderbilt has given initial shots to 18,000 employees so far, he said, and is now working on getting them the required second dose, while encouraging even more to get vaccinated. One group that has remained hesitant, he said, are young women, who fear – despite no evidence or biological plausibility – that the vaccine could affect their fertility. "There’s a lot of nonsense on the Internet having to do with sterility and reproductive health and the vaccine," he said. "We did a video specifically on that topic for staff.” Changing some people's behavior will have a ripple effect, Schaffner said. “They look left and right to see what their peers are doing." The failure to launch such education campaigns has real-world consequences, Pitts said. Without an active effort to encourage vaccination among Black and Hispanic health care workers, many declined the vaccine when they had an early chance for a shot. So now, instead of serving as the role models they could have been for others in their communities, "we have respected health care members of communities of color saying 'Don't get vaccinated,'" Pitts said. "Not only did we not engage them to do the right thing, they're actually out there now hurting the effort." Time for a rollout reset All the panelists said they are looking forward to a new administration. "The Biden administration is serious about ending the epidemic, and therefore they will certainly make a concerted effort to ensure mass vaccination," Nagarkatti said, reflecting the group's view. Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said the rollout will get smoother with time and calmer under the new administration. "At least we won't be getting proclamations of disdain for every science-based federal agency," he said. He's also looking forward to the arrival of spring and summer, when he believes enough people will be vaccinated to make a difference, and the infection rate will naturally decline for a few months. "All these good things are about to happen," Offit said. "We will get a more humid climate. Good. We have an administration that has a clue. Good. We have a vaccine that works really well. Good. And, the best part is it's not going to be just these two vaccines." Two more vaccines are nearing completion of their clinical trials and will likely be authorized for use in February and March, Offit said, which "lightens the load in terms of production." (More at above url)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/biden-covid-vaccination-trump/index.html Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say The Biden administration has promised to try to turn the Covid-19 pandemic around and drastically speed up the pace of vaccinating Americans against the virus. But in the immediate hours following Biden being sworn into office on Wednesday, sources with direct knowledge of the new administration's Covid-related work told CNN one of the biggest shocks that the Biden team had to digest during the transition period was what they saw as a complete lack of a vaccine distribution strategy under former President Donald Trump, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States. "There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch," one source said. Another source described the moment that it became clear the Biden administration would have to essentially start from "square one" because there simply was no plan as: "Wow, just further affirmation of complete incompetence." Prior to Inauguration Day, some of Biden's Covid-19 advisers had wanted to be careful not to be overly critical in public of the Trump administration's handling of the virus and vaccine, given that the Biden transition team was already having a hard time getting critical information and cooperation from the outgoing administration, the source said. Now that the transition of power has taken place, the Biden administration is hoping that they can quickly start to get a clearer picture of where things actually stand with vaccine distribution and administration across the country, going through something of a "fact-checking" exercise on what exactly the Trump administration had and had not done, they added. CNN has previously reported that the Biden team's most urgent concerns on Covid-19 include potential vaccine supply problems, coordination between federal and local governments, as well as funding, staffing and other resource needs for local governments. That is in addition to the emerging Covid variants, which the new White House -- in consultation with scientists and experts -- is watching warily.
It is now proven what many people expected. Trump and his administration didn't even try to have a plan to distribute vaccines. They quite literally did nothing. SAD!
Yup. the dem script being regurgitated here. The article contains the two required elements of the script. 1) Trump did nothing. So nothing is on Joe, unless it is a good thing. Then, yeh, Joe did that. 2) They are watching the new emerging covid variants. In other words, if things get worse it is because they are dealing with an emerging more transmissible variant. All lefty media articles are lined right up like ducks with the script. And, most importantly, Here4Corposes gets his paid poster fee.
as facts come to light and sources come forward, righties will just say Biden's shifting the blame and "passing the buck"
Biden should be thanking his Lucky stars there is a vaccine at all, screwed up logistics or not. He and damn near every other person said a vaccine was impossible to expect so quickly. Just quit bitching about it and straighten out the distribution.