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Six Weeks Later... My Shot is Ready 🙄
Apr. 24th, 2021 10:55 amI got an email today from Stanford Health Care, one of the providers I signed up with for Coronavirus vaccination. They're ready to schedule my shot! Except... I signed up with them six weeks ago. And in that time I've gotten both shots already.
Shot availability is changing. Six weeks ago shots were hard to find in my area. Almost everyone wanted one. Walk-up clinics were having to turn people away, and scheduled appointments were being snapped up right after they were loaded in the wee hours of the morning. I got my first shot 5 weeks ago by leaning in: searching across multiple providers and being willing to travel 100+ miles for vaccination.
Now supply is exceeding demand. News articles tell of walk-up clinics having leftover doses at the end of each day, even here in the Bay Area. That's been the case longer in other parts of the country where there's significant vaccine hesitancy.
It's not that vaccine manufacturing and delivery have ramped up to super high levels. As far as I can tell those are about the same as a month ago. In fact they're probably actually lower due to safety concerns pausing the J&J vaccine. It's really about the large number of people, over 30% nationwide, who don't want the vaccine (or are playing a misguided wait-and-see shell game). Consider it this way: More than half of everyone 16+ already has at least one shot. That means among the other 50%, the majority don't want it.
The 30% vaccine refusers are not spread evenly around the country. Here in the Bay Area their numbers are lower; that's why shots were hard to find for a long time. On the flip side, if shots were easy to get in your area a month ago— it's not because your state was "doing it right"; it's because your neighbors are Covidiots.
Shot availability is changing. Six weeks ago shots were hard to find in my area. Almost everyone wanted one. Walk-up clinics were having to turn people away, and scheduled appointments were being snapped up right after they were loaded in the wee hours of the morning. I got my first shot 5 weeks ago by leaning in: searching across multiple providers and being willing to travel 100+ miles for vaccination.
Now supply is exceeding demand. News articles tell of walk-up clinics having leftover doses at the end of each day, even here in the Bay Area. That's been the case longer in other parts of the country where there's significant vaccine hesitancy.
It's not that vaccine manufacturing and delivery have ramped up to super high levels. As far as I can tell those are about the same as a month ago. In fact they're probably actually lower due to safety concerns pausing the J&J vaccine. It's really about the large number of people, over 30% nationwide, who don't want the vaccine (or are playing a misguided wait-and-see shell game). Consider it this way: More than half of everyone 16+ already has at least one shot. That means among the other 50%, the majority don't want it.
The 30% vaccine refusers are not spread evenly around the country. Here in the Bay Area their numbers are lower; that's why shots were hard to find for a long time. On the flip side, if shots were easy to get in your area a month ago— it's not because your state was "doing it right"; it's because your neighbors are Covidiots.
