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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
Sure, it's possible to do those things, but they take a certain amount of time to set up at scale. To reach the stated goal you need to *average* several hundred thousand per day over the first 100 days at a minimum. Not reach that by the end of the period, average it. Then there's also all the competing beauracracy with state health agencies, hospitals, clinics, etc., all of their protocols, and so on.
I'm not trying to argue the President can't do anything or that Biden can't/won't make an improvement over what we have now. I'm saying he doesn't have the power to just snap his fingers and make this happen. If the reports now are at all accurate about his mindset, he will be very frustrated by what actually happens.
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I agree. Referring back to my original statement
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FWIW I certainly don't expect smooth sailing from Day 1, there will be inevitable issues, confusion to work out. But there should be plan and then verifiable progress communicated every week vs the information wasteland we have now.
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He can "make some things" happen and he can certainly be much more supportive of States.
The States are not blameless. Yeah, Trump should have done better but once the vaccines were in State hands, they own much of the blame. From an article yesterday.
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To help meet that goal, and speed up vaccination generally, Newsom wants to expand the list of eligible vaccinators to include pharmacists, dentists, and 15 national guard strike teams.
We noticed nursing students weren't on the list.
"We've been in touch with the California Board of Registered Nursing with hopes 30,000 nursing students who are trained and certified to help administer vaccines could help aid the backlog. Would you consider that?" reporter Stephanie Sierra asked.
"Yeah, in fact enthusiastically so," Newsom said. "Our fire agencies and our nursing schools will be essential and critical."
California also wants to open large-scale vaccination sites. The governor said vaccination sites at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Petco Park in San Diego and Cal Expo in Sacramento should be opening up by the end of the week. He said "many, many more" large sites would follow these three.
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This stuff seems pretty basic. Why this wasn't done already shows Newsom's incompetence.