Clint Lamb
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If you’re going to be trusted to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, it’d be nice if you … actually administered COVID vaccinations. You definitely shouldn’t let thousands of vaccines expire without being used.
Wild thought, right? Well, it’s apparently worth mentioning again because that’s exactly what Shelby County — which includes the city of Memphis — let happen.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that the state health department was launching an investigation into Shelby County, which may have dropped the ball. The city will now have vaccine doses rerouted away from the local health department, too, according to an article on Commercial Appeal.
That’s what happens when you have a stockpile of over 50,000 unused doses, a number which should be closer to 20,000.
“The people of Shelby County deserve efficient and effective vaccinations,” Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said in a news conference Tuesday. “It is our largest population center. It is also one of our centers of color, as far as disadvantaged and minority communities, but the people deserve to have good access to vaccines.”
Now that surplus will be redistributed to local hospitals, pharmacies and other officials — as it should — and the local health department will no longer oversee the administration of future vaccines.
Hopefully, this is a singular issue. I won’t get my hopes up though.
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isn’t that kind of waste considered actual harm?
how can this beeee? Gov’t waste? how many will die.
Just glad Trump isn’t in office, CNN, msnbc and other leftwing media outlets would be blaming him.
CNN wet dream….Trump orders white cops to let vaccine expire….
They’ll blame the TN governor if it’s a republican.
Are they going to dispose of them as hazardous waste like they would if a vial of vaccine falls to the floor and breaks?
Its typical of government entities. But yet they want to control healthcare on mass scale…..open you eyes folks. When you have a job that doesn’t require performance reviews tied to compensation , this is what you get.
Why not give some to doctors offices? We are equipped to dispense and monitor. Use the public sites for those who don’t have regular medical care. If everyone in the US needed a special cup of coffee, should the government create “coffee houses” or use Starbucks and the other existing places?
Great point, Doctor Chao…doctors dispense influenza vaccine shots every year and pneumonia vaccines as well. It would be great if my regular doctor had access!
All the best!
They need to call the Governor of West Virginia to figure out how to distribute and administer vaccines in an efficient manner.
Was it a failure of distribution or a lack of people wanting the vaccination?
Right on ChiefsGirl15 I sure don’t want this hurried up political fraud stuff fun fact Moderna had never brought anything to market before now all of a sudden in a manner of months they have a vaccine approved no thanks