WAITING IS HARD To all you video game addicts, you cocktail party haters, you isolationists, you antisocial homebodies and hermits: 2020 was your year! Need an excuse to say home and avoid the crowds? Covid was the perfect cover. Need a reason to avoid travel? Blame Covid! However, now that the vaccine is here we all need to prepare to socialize again..at some point. The vaccine roll out is upon us, and proceeding steadily. As a pediatrician I am very familiar with the ups and downs of giving vaccinations and the national plan for the COVID vaccine roll out raised some concerns for me. The plan, as I understand it, is that federally purchased vaccines get allocated to each state on a weekly basis, and from there get distributed to various hospitals (listed first), clinics and pharmacies in each county. While hospitals are wonderful organizations, their focus is to run emergency rooms and care for in-patients. Historically they have not vaccinated large numbers of the general public,
Thoughts on health care reform and other local occurences