Maybe because most people aren't that worried about the virus

The shipped vaccine gets counted the day it is shipped. The number of vaccinated people is tallied from the state data, and it can take 3+ days for the report to trickle up from the healthcare providers, through the county health dept, to the state. If you factor in 1 day in transit, another day to schedule out the doses, there you have almost a week lag between the dose being shipped and the vaccination being tallied.

TYRY43 said:

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Right now there are very few places to get the vaccine compared to the number of people trying to get vaccinated. A lot of smaller counties only have one or two pharmacies getting the vaccine and most are no longer accepting appointments as they are completely swamped with requests for the vaccine. Beats the heck out of me why the state isn't using the national guard to set up mass vaccination stations to unload the pharmacies who are not really set up for vaccinating a lot of people per day.

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Because of the phased approach to get the vaccine to the right people. Gonna work really well for the NG to set up a vaccination station, have everyone show up and then they have to go through the health screening of each and every person to decide if they can get it today, then send 90% of the people who showed up home without a vaccine.

Flu shots are a lot of work for busy pharmacies. This is much worse because of storage requirements, scheduling, and phone calls. Without added staff, they can't do hundreds of shots per day. Maybe 20-40 per pharmacist.

Definitely

Sorry, respectively I have to at least partially disagree. Screening the over 65's is a no brainer and should go very fast. The problem is with the over 16's with "medical conditions". I remember when I went for a pre-induction physical for the draft back in 1963 I couldn't believe the number of 20 year olds that were almost on their death beds with ailments that would keep them out of the draft. Not trying to make light of the folks with serious medical problems but definitely problems can arise with the screening of the over 16 year old group.

I live in a county of over 30,000 population with only one pharmacy authorized to give vaccinations. This pharmacy is due to receive 500 doses of Moderna vaccine. I'm on the list there with at least 100 folks ahead of me. I was told they don't know when they will get to to me but it could be the end of the month.

If you look at the Texas COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Locations Map you will see most rural counties have only one pharmacy authorized to vaccinate folks. Also, there are a large number of rural counties with no authorized pharmacy at this time. Guess where a lot of seniors move to when they retire?

Bottom line, expecting pharmacies with limited help to vaccinate millions of people in a short period of time is something only the idiots in Austin could dream up.

And that Tarrant county picture is in HORRID weather. IF the system ever assigns me a spot, I will have to take my walker. I hate to have to use it, but simply can't handle waiting in that kind of line without it.

3rd Generation Ag said:

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And that Tarrant county picture is in HORRID weather. IF the system ever assigns me a spot, I will have to take my walker. I hate to have to use it, but simply can't handle waiting in that kind of line without it.

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Yeah, I felt awful for some of the older folks having to wait out in that weather. Kudos to the older FWPD officer up in front of me. They kept coming out to him and offering him to go to the front of the line and he refused and waited in line like the rest of us.