250,000 Americans Died Awaiting the Covid-19 Vaccination
Much of it is the fault of Donald Trump and the Republicans. But even under Biden the stories of our fellow citizens struggling to get vaccinated are many. Constant searches on online; refreshing of computer screens. This is no way to do it. There was no central place to get information about available centers for vaccinations. There should have been a hotline for people to call and get an appointment. Why force people to scramble to save their lives and the lives of their loved ones. In fact, no computer, no luck:
More than 247,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. since vaccines first became available mid-December. Officials had warned that dispensing enough vaccines to reach herd immunity would take months. And with the initial vaccine supply extremely limited and the virus running rampant across the nation over the winter, it was a sad reality that some would contract COVID-19 and die before they could be inoculated.
With surveys showing a large percentage of the U.S. population leery of vaccines, it’s impossible to say exactly how many of the dead would have even wanted an immunization. But Brown said her mother wanted one — desperately. Other families have similar, wrenching stories of loved ones being infected after months of staying safe and then dying before they could get a dose.
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