r7950 wrote:
TimeIsUp wrote:
This is definitely good news, but there is a downside. Unless we figure out how to administer them more quickly it really doesn’t matter whether it’s end of May or end of August. I recall the per day administration being capped at 1.5M doses. We are at roughly 75M given (between 1st and fully vaccinated). So best case at capacity is roughly another 6+mos for 100% of the population which won’t be the case anyway. I’m very curious as to what the final percentage will be.The Bloomberg vaccine tracker would like to disagree with your 1.5M cap. The weekly average is now over 1.9M per day. At that rate, 75% of adults could be vaccinated by August 5th. When I first looked at the tracker in late January, at 1.25M per day, we were looking at early November to reach that level. Adding the Johnson vaccine to the mix should rapidly improve the timeline even more.
That’s good to hear. Clearly I was not looking at current data. After reading the rest of the thread I guess I’m on the optimistic side that 80%+ will get one of the vaccines. It’s going to be interesting as it looks like the season of spreader events come shortly after the vaccinations conclude. Is COVID going to be completely out of the news cycle come January?