Got the first shot today at gso coliseum. Very smooth process, no line, very well thought out.
I found the NYT discussion of the UK's approach -- focusing on getting one shot to more people, pushing the booster back to 3+ months -- to be a compelling strategy and matches up with my understanding, especially for people 65 and younger
A good friend of mine from Wake is on the UK Med School staff. They have been holding events that have given out about 1500 shots/Saturday and Sunday a few times. Lexington seems to be doing pretty well.
A delay seems OK
As Dr. Robert Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, has written, “According to most vaccine experts, delaying shot #2 by a few months is unlikely to materially diminish the ultimate effectiveness of two shots.”
In Britain, the daily number of new Covid cases has fallen by more than 90 percent since peaking in early January. The decline is larger than in virtually any other country. (In the U.S., new cases have fallen 79 percent since January.) Given that the contagious B.1.1.7 variant was first discovered in Britain and is now the country’s dominant virus form, “Britain’s free-fall in cases is all the more impressive,” Wachter told me. “Clearly their vaccination strategy has been highly effective.”
It is absolutely wild that less than a year after this thread was started, a handful of us are fully vaccinated and the rest are soon to follow. I'm not sure if I made any predictions about timing, but I would have been wrong.
Fema knows what they are doing.