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Old 15th December 2020, 07:30 PM   #146
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Originally Posted by Speedskater View Post
In the US, it will be a supply and demand problem. Lots of demand and little supply.
Joe Biden pledged about 100 million doses/jabs by May 1st. That means 1 million doses/jabs need to be delivered to hospitals every work day.
With luck there may be a total 15 million doses/jabs available in the next few weeks. But what happens after that?
With over 200,000 people testing positive every day, we need to vaccinate at least 1 million people/ day to get ahead of it. And it takes 2 doses of course.

With over 300 million people, it would take 600 million doses, so 600 days to fully vaccinate everybody at a rate of 1 million jabs per day. That's nearly 2 years.

Can we push it higher? Maybe 2 million jabs per day?
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