Congratulations on having the first person vaccinated in the free world. I am pleased other countries are receiving the vaccine at the same time the USA is preparing their approach.
Magnificent.
I am looking forward to Moderna’s vaccine as well as others in the pipeline. They are all needed and should be praised for their efforts.
President Biden needs to speak with Governors after they have spoken with the state hospitals in regard to front line workers.
If I may be so bold as to suggest a method of distribution:
Most states are populated with “Healthcare Systems.” Each system is usually an umbrella organization for an entire region of a state. Each healthcare system will know how many patients are within their system, including front line workers. Each system will know the COVID-19 population, the spread and the ability of the system to stem the spread. There have been nurses speaking to the public through local media appearances about the spread and asking them to curtail their activities to prevent greater spread of the virus.
The vaccines priority distribution is up to those at the lead of this effort namely the panel of experts with President Biden.
The point is the USA healthcare system has structure. There are competent people within that structure and that structure is organized within every state. The healthcare structure is also organized by the acuity of patients as well. There are state trauma centers organized as Level 1 to Level 3 and there are rural hospitals and tribal areas.
The Governors and the state HHS secretary will have organized within the current healthcare system structure as to where and when vaccinations will be utilized. If that hasn’t happened, each HHS state Secretary needs to do that now.
One other thing. There are also independent facilities such as Ford Motor Company planning distribution as well. Each state needs to have them involved if they hadn’t already organized privately.
This is not as monumental a task as it seems.
Nursing homes are rarely a lone enterprise. They are usually corporate entities. The single proprietorship will have to be listed with the state as well.
What job can be safer under normal circumstances? There are volunteers to consider and many times it is our older citizens volunteering for these important jobs. The level of hatred by Trumpism is not only scary but, very dangerous.
Evidently, there are some very decent people in government in the State of Georgia. They have every reason to be proud of the integrity with which elections in Georgia are carried out. I am impressed.
The threats must stop. The government officials are doing the right thing.
I don't know what you would call an office of the President-Elect, except "Office of the President-Elect."
As the President-Elect Joe Biden speaks to the county to prepare for the initiative to end the COVID-19 crisis, he should consider the importance of multi-language communication. He can't write Executive Orders yet, but, the law does require any and all healthcare information to be made available through any language currently used in the USA. His HHS Secretary needs to prepare the speeches available in multiple languages.
This initiative of providing information in multi-languages began with the HIV/AIDS crisis. There were entire communities left out of the information to prevent that virus and subsequent illness cue to language barriers. So, as the President-Elect prepares to lead to end the spread of SARS-CoV-2 his speeches should be made available in different languages to help stem the spread. Often those translations, if even on paper, are read by people of other countries and helps them carry out vital policies as well.
Public Law 88-277 (click here)
Eighty-eighth Congress of the United States of America
AT THE SECTION SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the seventh day of January, on one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four
An Act
To promote the orderly transfer of the executive power in connection with the expiration of the term of office of a President and the Inauguration of a new President.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the “President Transition Act of 1963”
Sec. 3 (a) The Administrator of General Services, referred to hereafter in this Act as “the Administrator,” is authorized to provide, upon request, to each President-elect and each Vice President-elect, for use in connection with his preparations for the assumption of official duties as President or Vice President necessary services and facilities, including-
(1) Suitable office space appropriately equipped with furniture, furnishings, office machines and equipment, and office supplies as determined by the Administrator, after consultation with the President-elect, the Vice-President elect, or their designee provided for in subsection (e) of this section, at such place or places within the United States as the President-elect or Vice-President-elect shall designate; ...
The only rule changes that were noted by the Trump Campaign were in Michigan and the courts ruled on that in favor of Trump.
The monies received by states to SECURE their POLLING PLACES are NOT rule changes. The monies were to secure a safe environment for citizens while voting and the staff while working. THAT IS OSHA and POSHA issues. It has nothing to do with local election procedures.
There is a national health emergency.
There were more than key battleground states that received these monies. Heck, Texas received the money, too.
There is a law!
If any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final determination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned.