06-16-2021, 08:34 PM
(06-16-2021, 01:51 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(06-16-2021, 01:45 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Step 1, perhaps: Do both injections and testing at the old bus terminal. There should be enough space and the location seems likely to be good for many of the populations we need to concentrate on including.
The bus terminal is not much more than a five minutes' walk from the pharmacy building. Do we really need two downtown sites so close together? Over 8,300 vaccinations done today alone. The region has only about 19,000 doses in inventory so it's not as if we could double the pace, even if we had more sites -- and more people to staff those sites.
Thanks, I had forgotten the Pharmacy building was doing vaccinations. To answer your question, probably not.
I think the point somebody else made about ease of navigating the process is very important. For myself, I find the vaccine process to be less convenient than it should be, but it’s not notably worse than many other forms or procedures I’ve used in the past. But for somebody with a little less familiarity and a lot less leeway to take time to figure it out, I can see the process being a significant barrier.
At some point I wonder if we can just go to “show up with your health card”. That’s about as simple a process as can be imagined and should help with getting a lot of less advantaged people vaccinated. Of course the downside would be unpredictable lineups.