State faces hurdles in effort to vaccinate 70% of residents by fall

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The Covid-19 vaccine is the “light at the end of the tunnel,” as public health officials like to say.

But we are still very much in that tunnel, and no one knows exactly when we’ll be out of it.

The Washington State Department of Health is working on a seven-month timeline; by the end of summer, it hopes to vaccinate 70% of the state’s population to reach herd immunity, officials said Jan. 14.

To do that, it has to triple the amount of Covid-19 vaccines it’s administering from 15,000 each day to 45,000. It also needs a consistent supply of the vaccine.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/01/20/washington-state-residents-vaccinations-goal.html

[RussellCattle]

1. I just got my first Covid-19 vaccination this morning in Spokane and can vouch for.....

......the fact that this is going to be a big job. It was at an extremely well run operation at an urban clinic setting with online appointments, 100+ people in line and controlled and adequate parking. Today, running from 9 AM to 9 PM they expect to vaccinate about 3000 people. This is one of about six main venues, in a county of 600,000 people, where one can get the shot today. It is going to take a while, even with Washington's Department of Public Health's plans for large scale venues when more vaccine is available to the state.