[dabigv13]

It seems you are assuming all the December doses will be first doses, and increasing production will account for second doses and the next round of first doses. 

I'm not sure that's how they are planning it, at least initially while production is still ramping up. I'm guessing they will not be putting shots in arms if they don't already have access to the second round shots for those patients. We already saw Pfizer had issues with production, would be a big problem if lots of people only got one dose and couldn't get the second from some snafu. 

Once reliability in the production and delivery is known, maybe they will be putting first shots in while still waiting for delivery of the second one.

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Here is an interesting interview with the lone CDC ACIP member who voted against including LTCF patients in the initial vaccination stage. Seems a big concern of hers is since LTCF patients are at a high risk of dying and having major health problems in general, if several die or have a stroke or heart attack soon after getting the vaccine, this could scare people into thinking they are related to the vaccination and reduce vaccine confidence.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/03/cdc-...ine-first/

[dabigv13]

It seems you are assuming all the December doses will be first doses, and increasing production will account for second doses and the next round of first doses. 

I'm not sure that's how they are planning it, at least initially while production is still ramping up. I'm guessing they will not be putting shots in arms if they don't already have access to the second round shots for those patients. We already saw Pfizer had issues with production, would be a big problem if lots of people only got one dose and couldn't get the second from some snafu. 

Once reliability in the production and delivery is known, maybe they will be putting first shots in while still waiting for delivery of the second one.

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Here is an interesting interview with the lone CDC ACIP member who voted against including LTCF patients in the initial vaccination stage. Seems a big concern of hers is since LTCF patients are at a high risk of dying and having major health problems in general, if several die or have a stroke or heart attack soon after getting the vaccine, this could scare people into thinking they are related to the vaccination and reduce vaccine confidence.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/03/cdc-...ine-first/