[ExI] covid data

[William Flynn Wallace]

The Nat'l Guard - come to think of it, it might have been somebody else.
They wore military gear, checked us in, verified our appts., directed
traffic, gave the shots.   I made an assumption that they were NG.  bill w

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:39 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 21, 2021 10:40 AM
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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] covid data
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> >…Spike, I think you might have to retract your statement that there are
> enough vaccine meds around but they lack volunteers.  That is certainly not
> true here - Nat'l Guard was there when I got mine…  billw
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> Why was the National Guard there?
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> The local policy required two appointments to be made before the first
> vaccine could be poked.  This of course required that one dose had to be
> held in reserve.  The program is said to have underestimated the percentage
> of no-shows for the second appointment, resulting in having both trained
> personnel on hand and sufficient medications but no patient.  The program
> was criticized for not allowing any random person to get the unused
> vaccine, which resulted in its expiration and subsequently being
> discarded.  Damn.
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> The second-round no-shows should have been easy enough to foresee:
> apparently there is somewhere around 90% efficacy with one dose, and 95%
> with two.  So… it makes perfect sense on the part of the patient to just do
> the one-and-done: didn’t have it before, immunity an order of magnitude
> improved, so is there justification to bother getting another factor of two?
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> People being what we are, they don’t always bother to call and cancel the
> second appointment.
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> A better way: anticipate second-round no-shows and having proles line up
> for any remaining available, regardless of age.  Then all available
> resources can be utilized.
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