CDC caved and now recommends that states expand vaccination access to people 65 or over, rather than the current recommendation of prioritizing "essential" workers.
So basically, they're adopting Florida's policy. Funny how a state without much, if any, lockdown, happens to be the one with the right policies re: vaccination.
@pete Interesting fact considering that most countries don't even allow young people yet (except for medical staff).
@BitcoinAustrian New York state was threatening $1 million dollar fines for vaccinating people out of priority sequence... a sequence that would have vaccinated a 20 year old nurse over a 70 year old.
@pete @BitcoinAustrian You guys have vaccines? In my country there are more photos of the chancellor during a vaccine session than we have inhabitants. Now they come up with "We won't have enough vaccines until summer".
Pure PR gag.
@XBT @BitcoinAustrian I'm Canadian fwiw. But we (🇨🇦) have vaccinated just 1% of the population so far, compared to the US's 3%
Israel is at 20%. Though interestingly, it doesn't seem to have slowed the pace of cases yet or deaths yet. They started by vaccinating the elderly, and should have finished the first dose for that population a week ago. So there should be some reduction in deaths by now. But they just posted their highest ever total.
@XBT @BitcoinAustrian I'm not going to be surprised if it turns out to be less effective in the elderly than the trials suggested. Probably some benefit. But not the 75% by the first dose that some have been suggesting.
Hopefully it doesn't make things worse... The trials didn't actually rule that out, and prior attempts at SARS vaccines often made the disease worse.
@pete @XBT @BitcoinAustrian why do we need a vaccine?