Logistics

[Jolly]

Remember all the pissing and moaning about the logistics of the Trump Administration trying to deliver vaccines?

Haven't seen any stories about major logistical foul-ups.

Score another one for Trump...

[jon-nyc]

I’m no expert but I would imagine the real concern is the ‘last mile’, and problems won’t be apparent until it scales.

[Loki]

The initial rollout is so small there won’t be major issues. It’s downstream a bit.

[Jolly]

Part of the scaling problems go away, as vaccines with less rigorous storage requirements are approved.

I also suspect that problems of scale have already been addressed and while nothing this big works perfectly, I do think distribution problems will occur on the state end, not the Fed's end.

[Loki]

@jolly said in Logistics:

Part of the scaling problems go away, as vaccines with less rigorous storage requirements are approved.

I also suspect that problems of scale have already been addressed and while nothing this big works perfectly, I do think distribution problems will occur on the state end, not the Fed's end.

I saw somewhere Jim Cramer predicting a vaccine glut by April. The key is to do this as fast as possible. To many in hospitals a fear is the tracking and compliance for the second shot. So it’s even possibly at a more granular level than states even.

[jon-nyc]

@jolly said in Logistics:

I do think distribution problems will occur on the state end, not the Fed's end.

Hopefully the new administration won’t view it as someone else’s problem

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Logistics:

@jolly said in Logistics:

I do think distribution problems will occur on the state end, not the Fed's end.

Hopefully the new administration won’t view it as someone else’s problem

You can't micromanage the world. Remember, you were the Trump Dictator guy.

Can't have it both ways...

[Jolly]

@loki said in Logistics:

@jolly said in Logistics:

Part of the scaling problems go away, as vaccines with less rigorous storage requirements are approved.

I also suspect that problems of scale have already been addressed and while nothing this big works perfectly, I do think distribution problems will occur on the state end, not the Fed's end.

I saw somewhere Jim Cramer predicting a vaccine glut by April. The key is to do this as fast as possible. To many in hospitals a fear is the tracking and compliance for the second shot. So it’s even possibly at a more granular level than states even.

Here's a problem you haven't even thought of...What about the guys that work at multiple hospitals?

And what about agency healthcare?

[Loki]

Indiana’s website crashed today, too many healthcare workers trying to schedule for the vaccine.

Great sign that the very conservative state of Mike Pence fame has such demand.

Maybe we can use AI to figure out where the anti-vaxxers are to focus our public health messages on them.

[Jolly]

First guy in our area got his shot yesterday. He was a sixty-something ED physician.

If I understood that hospital's roll-out, it was ED, Med ICU and Med-Surg. Age and comorbidities figured into allocation, with doctors ahead of nurses and other staff.

Made sense to me.

[jon-nyc]

@jolly said in Logistics:

He was a sixty-something ED physician.

You have special docs just to prescribe those blue pills?

[Mik]

Wondered who would pick the low hanging fruit.

[Jolly]

@mik said in Logistics:

Wondered who would pick the low hanging fruit.

You had to wonder?

[Doctor Phibes]

@mik said in Logistics:

Wondered who would pick the low hanging fruit.

Low hanging fruit is a rather unfortunate turn of phrase, all things considered.

[Horace]

There's a gay comic named James Adomian who titled an album that way.