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I Was a Military COVID Planner. The Vaccine Rollout Is Going to Be a Nightmare. [View all]
I Was a Military COVID Planner. The Vaccine Rollout Is Going to Be a Nightmare.Our long winter with COVID could turn into a slog through the spring and summer, even with an effective vaccine.
by Kris Alexander Updated Nov. 16, 2020 8:22AM ET / Published Nov. 16, 2020 4:57AM E
https://www.thedailybeast.com/military-covid-19-planner-explains-vaccine-rollout-problems-in-texas-and-elsewhere
No matter how you feel about Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race and his touted plans to embrace science over magical thinking in fighting the coronavirus, we’re stuck with a simple reality.
The incoming administration will inherit one of the most daunting challenges any president has ever faced: planning and executing a national mass-vaccination campaign in the middle of a global pandemic.
Before I retired from the Army, I served as a COVID crisis planner at NORTHCOM, where we were terrified of a potential “COVICANE.” Luckily, a major hurricane did not deliver a Katrina- or Harvey-like hit to a big city facing a coronavirus outbreak this year, at least on the scale we feared.
But our next biggest concern was what the virus might do to rural America. And it’s playing out in harrowing fashion right now.
With cases spiking to over 10 million, the virus is everywhere, and spreading deeply into every corner of the country. This is where the Biden administration will face its biggest challenge, especially as it pertains to rolling out a potential vaccine.
This has been a crisis a long time in the making. As the Texas Observer recently noted, in 2019, Texas budgeted $17.7 million for infectious disease surveillance, prevention, and epidemiology—and over $400 million for border security. So even when a vaccine is delivered, it will be going to a state that is understaffed and underfunded.
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The incoming administration will inherit one of the most daunting challenges any president has ever faced: planning and executing a national mass-vaccination campaign in the middle of a global pandemic.
Before I retired from the Army, I served as a COVID crisis planner at NORTHCOM, where we were terrified of a potential “COVICANE.” Luckily, a major hurricane did not deliver a Katrina- or Harvey-like hit to a big city facing a coronavirus outbreak this year, at least on the scale we feared.
But our next biggest concern was what the virus might do to rural America. And it’s playing out in harrowing fashion right now.
With cases spiking to over 10 million, the virus is everywhere, and spreading deeply into every corner of the country. This is where the Biden administration will face its biggest challenge, especially as it pertains to rolling out a potential vaccine.
This has been a crisis a long time in the making. As the Texas Observer recently noted, in 2019, Texas budgeted $17.7 million for infectious disease surveillance, prevention, and epidemiology—and over $400 million for border security. So even when a vaccine is delivered, it will be going to a state that is understaffed and underfunded.
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As Joe Biden said in his press conferenc e today, there is a lot of planning to be done and the transiton needs to start immediately or else he/his staff will be lose 1 1/2 months of planning.
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