It states that the state as a whole has received 1.2 million doses. NYC is about half the population of the state and has administered about half the doses. So estimate that it’s received about 600,000 doses, while NYC had received 4 million doses during the smallpox crisis. That accounts for maybe 80% of the disparity.
I believe Dryvax was the vaccine administered for smallpox in 1947 NYC, and it was made 50 years before that. So there was time to gain trust and produce enough to vaccinate 4 million people without any question of queues.
Despite the righteous anger at this process, what we’re trying to accomplish is a flippin’ scientific and logistical miracle: going from “new disease” to “global vaccine rollout” in less than a year. Could they have done that in 1947?
This NYT article is from the 10th of January as well:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/nyregion/new-york-vaccine-guidelines.amp.html
It states that the state as a whole has received 1.2 million doses. NYC is about half the population of the state and has administered about half the doses. So estimate that it’s received about 600,000 doses, while NYC had received 4 million doses during the smallpox crisis. That accounts for maybe 80% of the disparity.
I believe Dryvax was the vaccine administered for smallpox in 1947 NYC, and it was made 50 years before that. So there was time to gain trust and produce enough to vaccinate 4 million people without any question of queues.
Despite the righteous anger at this process, what we’re trying to accomplish is a flippin’ scientific and logistical miracle: going from “new disease” to “global vaccine rollout” in less than a year. Could they have done that in 1947?