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CDC unveiled an interactive vaccine tracking map on Thursday. - The map shows how much
vaccine doses assigned to each condition and how many strokes each has administered so far. - The totals tell a grim story: The United States is a long way from meeting its goal of immunizing 20 million people by the end of 2020. At its current rate, it would take the country 9 years to immunize all. population.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday unveiled major updates to its vaccine tracking dashboard, including an interactive map that shows how vaccine distribution and administration is performed in each U.S. state and territory.
Previously, the website only tracked two general metrics of COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the United States: doses distributed and doses administered in total nationwide.
The tracker now lists the following details for each condition: total doses dispensed, total doses dispensed per 100,000 people, and the number of people who received their first dose. It also includes information on the number of doses dispensed and assigned in total, as well as the number of doses dispensed and administered in long-term care facilities. You can access the map here.
The tracker should be updated on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, excluding holidays (in this case, the tracker will be updated the day after the holidays).
At its current rate, it would take the US 9 years to vaccinate everyone
So far, CDC tracker numbers tell an unfortunate story: The United States is far from
Only about 2.8 million people in the United States received their first dose of the vaccine. It is about 14% of this Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration
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Several states, including South Dakota and Connecticut, have distributed more than 40% of the vaccines allocated to them so far. But others, including California and Ohio, administered less than 20%. Kansas administered only about 10.5% of its allocated doses.
A combination of factors is to blame for these delays. On the one hand, distribution and administration plans have been left to states, but local public health agencies are overwhelmed with other elements of pandemic management as cases and deaths are at record levels. and the staff are exhausted. The United States recorded 229,000 new cases and 3,744 deaths – a new record – on Wednesday alone. A lack of federal funding for state immunization programs has also contributed. In Seattle, health officials have so little funding for COVID-19 efforts that they fear they will have to choose between testing and vaccinations, according to Reuters. However, the congressional aid program recently passed an allocation of $ 8 billion for vaccine distribution.
Then there is the challenge of storing the Pfizer vaccine at the necessary ultra-low temperatures. And to top it off, some states, including Oregon, Iowa, and Maryland, received fewer doses than they expected.
President-elect Joe
“The efforts to distribute and administer the vaccine are not progressing as they should,” Biden said in Wilmington, Delaware. At the current rate, he said, “it will take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people.”
Biden said he wanted to increase the current rate to at least 1 million shots per day; at present it only costs about 200,000 per day. Based on a US population of 330.7 million according to the US Census Bureau, it would take the US over 3,300 days – just over 9 years – to inject everyone with two doses at current pace.
President Donald Trump has defended his administration’s actions after Biden’s remarks.
“It is up to the states to distribute the vaccines once brought to areas designated by the federal government,” he said. on Twitter. “We not only developed the vaccines, including putting money in to move the process forward quickly, but we got them to the states.”