04-07-2021, 07:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2021, 08:09 PM by Carey.
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I would love to see the title changed, as the "F" was never a true indication of anything that our state has done....
As far as I can see, our state has lead in keeping COVID from spreading through our rapid Tracing & Monitoring efforts & our mask mandates, travel restriction & closures... much to the complaints of some for failing the effected businesses...
As far as vaccination efforts, we have been in the top 10 states for all except the first week of the rollout...
The 3 main complaints from the vaccination efforts were due to receiving the vaccine days later than some states, complying with the CDC rollout plan & a perception that there was widespread ʻfavoritismʻ.... much of which I have TRIED to explain.... still, folks feel those of us assisting have failed!
1. Luckily now everyone that wants to register & is old enough (16+ for Pfizer, 18+ for Moderna & J&J Janssen), can register... at the Tuesday clinic we had folks from 18 to 90+ (for anyone that missed that, we are still getting kupuna signing up...) many of the folks at that clinic signed up for it on Monday & Tuesday - as to favoritism, I saw the exact opposite at the clinics... the rollout I saw followed the rollout with the essential workers coming on line at the % intervals the CDC had allowed UNTIL our state reduced the kupuna ages to 70, the 65 then 50... this was not within the CDC protocol, but stopped much of the complaints (however our clinics became much less organized, as most folks did regard their appointment times as anything but a suggestion... as you may have noticed, we are back to the organization we had for the months PRIOR to opening up to the 70-75yr olds...ETA: with a smaller volunteer & work force, as the last 2 weeks of March, we had a drastic reduction in volunteers signing up & now have ~1/2 the volunteer force!)
2. we were a few days behind in the initial rollout of the vaccine, however this was only due to the fact that to get the secured shipping to our remote location, with the way the federal rollout started (states not given advanced noticed of quantity or shipment until the federal date...) meant that with shipping here, we would be behind other states that were closer to distribution centers...
3. I have no idea how folks outside the VAMS process perceive favoritism, but as a business owner & one who assisted in the vaccine rollout, I KNOW how the essential worker rollout worked & the only way an essential industry could have added more workers or done anything towards ʻfavoritismʻ would be if the owners agreed to falsification of a federal document...
If they decided on that route, the state DOH had no power to do the massive paperwork tracing, AS THE MAIN EFFORT IS TO GET EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO BE VACCINATED.... if a business owner decided to commit federal fraud, that is on them! The state DOH does not have any legal standing on that item.... their work is to reduce the spread of disease... Did they stop it when they could? yes I did see that, when someone was stupid enough to open themselves to the fact they committed fraud to get the vaccine.
There is one other piece, & that is to reduce waste in the vaccine & I saw first hand the work (REAL WORK, MUCH OF IT ON THEIR ON TIME) the DOH workers did to make sure that all of the vaccine that could be used got into the arms that were on the CDC list... it would have seemed simpler to follow some states that had ʻanything goesʻ rules on that... but the real work of making sure that each person also got the second dose (if they had Pfizer or Moderna) was something no one outside of the system can appreciate...
So yah, it would be nice to see that the folks here actually realize that our state has always been in the upper % of the response & not to always see this title that we were a failure!
As far as I can see, our state has lead in keeping COVID from spreading through our rapid Tracing & Monitoring efforts & our mask mandates, travel restriction & closures... much to the complaints of some for failing the effected businesses...
As far as vaccination efforts, we have been in the top 10 states for all except the first week of the rollout...
The 3 main complaints from the vaccination efforts were due to receiving the vaccine days later than some states, complying with the CDC rollout plan & a perception that there was widespread ʻfavoritismʻ.... much of which I have TRIED to explain.... still, folks feel those of us assisting have failed!
1. Luckily now everyone that wants to register & is old enough (16+ for Pfizer, 18+ for Moderna & J&J Janssen), can register... at the Tuesday clinic we had folks from 18 to 90+ (for anyone that missed that, we are still getting kupuna signing up...) many of the folks at that clinic signed up for it on Monday & Tuesday - as to favoritism, I saw the exact opposite at the clinics... the rollout I saw followed the rollout with the essential workers coming on line at the % intervals the CDC had allowed UNTIL our state reduced the kupuna ages to 70, the 65 then 50... this was not within the CDC protocol, but stopped much of the complaints (however our clinics became much less organized, as most folks did regard their appointment times as anything but a suggestion... as you may have noticed, we are back to the organization we had for the months PRIOR to opening up to the 70-75yr olds...ETA: with a smaller volunteer & work force, as the last 2 weeks of March, we had a drastic reduction in volunteers signing up & now have ~1/2 the volunteer force!)
2. we were a few days behind in the initial rollout of the vaccine, however this was only due to the fact that to get the secured shipping to our remote location, with the way the federal rollout started (states not given advanced noticed of quantity or shipment until the federal date...) meant that with shipping here, we would be behind other states that were closer to distribution centers...
3. I have no idea how folks outside the VAMS process perceive favoritism, but as a business owner & one who assisted in the vaccine rollout, I KNOW how the essential worker rollout worked & the only way an essential industry could have added more workers or done anything towards ʻfavoritismʻ would be if the owners agreed to falsification of a federal document...
If they decided on that route, the state DOH had no power to do the massive paperwork tracing, AS THE MAIN EFFORT IS TO GET EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO BE VACCINATED.... if a business owner decided to commit federal fraud, that is on them! The state DOH does not have any legal standing on that item.... their work is to reduce the spread of disease... Did they stop it when they could? yes I did see that, when someone was stupid enough to open themselves to the fact they committed fraud to get the vaccine.
There is one other piece, & that is to reduce waste in the vaccine & I saw first hand the work (REAL WORK, MUCH OF IT ON THEIR ON TIME) the DOH workers did to make sure that all of the vaccine that could be used got into the arms that were on the CDC list... it would have seemed simpler to follow some states that had ʻanything goesʻ rules on that... but the real work of making sure that each person also got the second dose (if they had Pfizer or Moderna) was something no one outside of the system can appreciate...
So yah, it would be nice to see that the folks here actually realize that our state has always been in the upper % of the response & not to always see this title that we were a failure!