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patphil

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4. I think this approach is more a reality check on the massive task of vaccinating 1.4 billion people.

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Tue Sep 15, 2020, 02:10 PM

Sep 2020

High risk people and areas first, then spread out as needed across the country.

We can't use the same approach in the USA because the virus is too widespread. It's literally everywhere right now. We'll still probably go with high risk people first, but then there is so much of it out there that we will probably just make it available generally across the country.

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China says no need to vaccinate entire population against Covid-19 at this stage, only frontline wor [View all] TomCADem Sep 2020 OP

Here we will skip the front line workers and go straight for the white middle class to efhmc Sep 2020 #1

We will vaccinate the most critical and necessary workers. JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2020 #7

Most likely, they'll do it in stages Warpy Sep 2020 #2

We need a vaccine to open. OneCrazyDiamond Sep 2020 #3

5 lessons on social distancing from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic TomCADem Sep 2020 #6

Gov Newsom is in charge of that decision for my state. OneCrazyDiamond Sep 2020 #10

It Is Sad That We Need to Accept Trumpsters.... TomCADem Sep 2020 #11

I think this approach is more a reality check on the massive task of vaccinating 1.4 billion people. patphil Sep 2020 #4

That's a sensible way to do it. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #5

Is there any other way to do it? There are production constraints that rate limit availability Sapient Donkey Sep 2020 #12

Given the fact that manufacturing a vaccine takes time, and the fact that people who Nitram Sep 2020 #8

In cases like yours, I wouldn't want to be one of the first people even if I could Sapient Donkey Sep 2020 #13

Let's just make sure the damn thing works - ok? nt. BlueIdaho Sep 2020 #9