Washington Correspondent Pilkyu Kim
– On the 4th (local time), I went to a pharmacy attached to Giant, a large grocery store near Chinatown in Washington, USA.
This is the place where Modena’s COVID-19 vaccination began, and recently, a young man who was not a medical personnel or an elderly man posted on social media what he boasted about getting the vaccine. It was true when I checked.
At the pharmacy, the remaining vaccine was given to the general public as well. Modena vaccine contains 10 doses in one bottle, and the storage period at room temperature is 24 hours. After opening in the morning, if it remains until evening, it should be thrown away, so it was intended to inoculate the person who wanted it. At the deadline, I expected the pharmacy to be crowded with people who wanted it, but no one was there. I asked people who came to the mart to shop.
Ian Simon, a researcher for science policy, said he visits this mart often, but is the first to hear that he is giving away the excess vaccine. He said that if he had known in advance, he would have notified himself and the adults around him.
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Moder or’Corona 19′ vaccine that the government decided to introduce. [AFP=연합뉴스]
– On the other hand, a middle-aged customer named Ellen Zao raised a conspiracy theory from a large pharmaceutical company and said that it would not be right even if it was released for free now. As I turned back, I asked the reporter to never be beaten.
Eventually, one side lacks publicity, the other side lacks persuasion, so the vaccine remains in the pharmacy, but the injection needle is not properly inserted. Even in the capital of the United States, it was possible to guess why vaccinations in the United States are not speeding up now. The federal government has mobilized FedEx and UPS as part of its’high-speed operation’ to distribute 17.2 million doses of Pfizer and Modena vaccines across the country so far. As a result of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of 5 days, 4.48 million people actually completed the first vaccination, or 28% of the distributed volume. In Kansas, only 7% and 11% of the vaccines secured in California, which has a large population, were used.
The COVID-19 vaccine is bound to take more time than other vaccines. A space that can be sufficiently distanced is needed, and a separate place to watch side effects for 15 minutes after vaccination should be prepared. Without such an infrastructure, the land mass was so wide that there was a great distrust about the vaccine, and several reasons came out, but the conclusion of the delay in vaccination was one. The local government, which has taken over the responsibility from the federal government, is not prepared at all.
Even if the beads are rolled, they must be worn, and even if the vaccine is distributed, it is collective immunity. From our standpoint, it is necessary to observe trial and error and prepare creative responses. Even if it is relatively late to obtain a vaccine, it may come out first.
Washington Correspondent Pilkyu Kim
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