20m immunizations a month means 20m doses? This is for both Pfizer and Modena combined?
1. How much will get wasted considering the complex logistics and 24 hour expiry once it’s out of cold cooling?
2. Especially when you consider only 58% of people say they still the virus.
3. How do you get to 70% of 325m+ people (450m+ doses) in six months? If your distribution rate is 20m doses a month, that’s 10m people immunized a month. By May 2021 that’s 60m people immunized, which is closer to 20% of the total US population.
20m immunizations a month means 40m doses. While the doctor seems to have been referencing both vaccines, Pfizer alone seems to be distributing 40m alone this December with a target of 1.3 billion next year- so something seems off about the numbers.
1. None will be wasted. Pfizer vaccine can be kept in the fridge for 5 days, Moderna for 30. Perhaps some people in certain areas will be vaccinated earlier than others to circumvent waste but there should be close to no actual vaccines wasted. They have been working on distribution plans for months, including cold storage shipping containers.
2. Including those who have contracted or will contract the virus. Either way, far more people will be willing to take the vaccine in March-May once they’ve seen millions immunized with no problem, including doctors and health care workers, and realize that many venues are only re-opening to people who’ve had the vaccine (teased at by the “certificate” in the vaccine “kits”)
3. See above