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February 17, 2021
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Good morning. We look at the need to accelerate the U.S. vaccination program.
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People receiving vaccines at a community center in the Bronx yesterday.James
Estrin/The New York Times
Three million shots a day
The Biden administration has been quite cautious in setting its public
vaccination goals.
During the transition, officials said they hoped to give shots to one million
Americans per
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— a level the Trump administration nearly reached in its final days, despite
being badly behind its own goals. In President Biden’s first week in office, he
raised the target to 1.5
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although his aides quickly added that it was more of a “hope” than a “goal.”
Either way, the country is now giving
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about 1.7 million shots per day.
I have spent some time recently interviewing public-health experts about what
the real goal should be, and I came away with a clear message: The Biden
administration is not being ambitious enough about vaccinations, at least not
in its public statements.
An appropriate goal, experts say, is three million shots per day — probably by
April. At that pace, half of adults would receive their first shot by April and
all adults who wanted a shot could receive one by June, saving thousands of
lives and allowing normal life to return by midsummer.
Biden struck a somewhat more ambitious tone yesterday, telling
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that anybody who wanted a vaccine would be able to get one “by the end of
July.” But Dr. Anthony Fauci also
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that the timeline for when the general population could receive shots was
slipping from April to May or June.
The shots are on their way
The key fact is that the delivery of vaccine doses is on the verge of
accelerating rapidly. Since December, Moderna and Pfizer have delivered fewer
than one million shots per day to the government.
But over the next month and a half, the two companies have promised to
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at least three million shots per day — and to accelerate the pace to about 3.3
million per day starting in April. Johnson & Johnson is likely to add to that
total if, as
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it receives the go-ahead to start distributing shots in coming weeks.
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Source: New York Times estimate
Very soon, the major issue won’t be supply. It will be logistics: Can the Biden
administration and state and local governments administer the shots at close to
the same rate that they receive them?
“I’m not hearing a plan,” Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert at Baylor College
of Medicine, told me. “In the public statements, I don’t hear that sense of
urgency.”
Bankers’ hours for vaccine clinics
The experts I interviewed said they understood why Biden had set only modest
public goals so far. Manufacturing vaccines is
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and falling short of a high-profile goal would sew doubt during a
public-health emergency, as Barry Bloom, a Harvard immunologist, told me. If he
were president, Bloom added, he would also want to exceed whatever goal was
appearing in the media.
But setting aside public relations, experts say that the appropriate goal is to
administer vaccine shots at roughly the same rate that drug makers deliver them
— with a short delay, of a week or two, for logistics. Otherwise, millions of
doses will languish in storage while Americans are
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and the country remains partially shut
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“We should be doing more,” Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins,
said. “I am kind of surprised by how constrained we’ve been.” Many vaccine
clinics operate only during business hours, she noted. And the government has
not done much to expand the pool of vaccine workers — say, by training E.M.T.
workers.
The newly contagious variants of the
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add another reason for urgency. They could cause an explosion of cases in the
spring, Hotez said, and lead to mutations that are resistant to the current
vaccines. But if the vaccines can crush the spread before then, the mutations
may not take hold.
“We need to be laser focused on getting as many people vaccinated now as
possible,” Dr. Paul Sax, a top infectious-disease official at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital in Boston, told me.
As my colleague Katie Thomas, who covers the vaccines, said: “The future looks
bright — if we can do vaccination quickly enough, if people actually want the
vaccines and if the variants don’t mess with the plan.”
‘Our historic moment of crisis’
Nobody doubts that vaccinating three million Americans every day for months on
end would be a herculean task.
When I asked Biden about his virus plan during a December phone
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he used the term “logistical nightmare” to describe a rapid national
vaccination program. “This is going to be one of the hardest and most costly
challenges in American history,” he said.
Since then, his aides have emphasized the challenges — the possibility of
manufacturing problems, the difficulty of working with hundreds of local
agencies, the need to distribute vaccines equitably. They also point out that
they have nearly
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the pace of vaccination in their first month in office, accelerated the
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of delivery from drugmakers and have plans to do more, like open
mass-vaccination clinics and expand the pool of vaccine workers.
Part of me wonders whether the White House knows that three million shots per
day is the right goal and simply doesn’t want to say so.
When Biden and his advisers talk about the fight against Covid-19, they
sometimes compare it to wartime mobilization. And the U.S. has accomplished
amazing logistical feats during wartime. A single Michigan auto
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figured out how to manufacture a new B-24 bomber plane every hour during World
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built one warship per day — for four years.
“This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,” Biden said during his
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“We have never, ever, ever failed in America when we have acted together.”
Near the end of the speech, he added a question: “Will we rise to the occasion
