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Some more clarification on Alameda County Health System. They have given 2000 of there 7,000 vaccine doses. They are currently giving 260 doses a day. Only 130 will be newly vaccinated as they get into booster doses. The person running the program is in over her head and has no idea what resources are available to her to get the vaccine out faster. There is a bunch of paperwork mandated by the feds every time they give a dose and they only have three people trained to do that. I got permission from my boss to email her directly today to propose a way to immunize every person working in my clinic in one Friday afternoon. We have about 125 employees in our facility. The Pediatric department gives as many as 120 vaccines a day in the normal course of a clinical day. We could easily mobilize our department to do this in 4-5 hours. I expect my proposal to be rejected. It makes too much sense. I even volunteered to run the entire effort. I normally do not work on Friday afternoons.

Sad, but this is what we get when there are no "dry runs" done in advance to demonstrate the problems of the "plan". One can argue that in this case it could be foreseen that 260 immunizations a day wouldn't cut it. However, it was not foreseen. A dry run would have disclosed it, hopefully back in November when the problem could have been more easily addressed. It is also an indictment of our local news media for not being all over this story and of the Board of Supervisors for not recognizing and addressing the issue quickly.

That said, Akiddoc is demonstrating the eternal truth that no matter how good or bad the plan is, the battle is won or lost by the troops, not the generals. Hopefully he will be allowed to lead his "company strength" detachment to their objective of being immunized without the "headquarters REMFs" getting in his way.

[Goose]

Some more clarification on Alameda County Health System. They have given 2000 of there 7,000 vaccine doses. They are currently giving 260 doses a day. Only 130 will be newly vaccinated as they get into booster doses. The person running the program is in over her head and has no idea what resources are available to her to get the vaccine out faster. There is a bunch of paperwork mandated by the feds every time they give a dose and they only have three people trained to do that. I got permission from my boss to email her directly today to propose a way to immunize every person working in my clinic in one Friday afternoon. We have about 125 employees in our facility. The Pediatric department gives as many as 120 vaccines a day in the normal course of a clinical day. We could easily mobilize our department to do this in 4-5 hours. I expect my proposal to be rejected. It makes too much sense. I even volunteered to run the entire effort. I normally do not work on Friday afternoons.

Sad, but this is what we get when there are no "dry runs" done in advance to demonstrate the problems of the "plan". One can argue that in this case it could be foreseen that 260 immunizations a day wouldn't cut it. However, it was not foreseen. A dry run would have disclosed it, hopefully back in November when the problem could have been more easily addressed. It is also an indictment of our local news media for not being all over this story and of the Board of Supervisors for not recognizing and addressing the issue quickly.

That said, Akiddoc is demonstrating the eternal truth that no matter how good or bad the plan is, the battle is won or lost by the troops, not the generals. Hopefully he will be allowed to lead his "company strength" detachment to their objective of being immunized without the "headquarters REMFs" getting in his way.