Lots of folks are confusing the list of prioritized population groups with an actual plan for getting a vaccine. If you don’t know where and from whom you’ll get the jab — and if you’re not a health care worker, or staff or resident of a long-term care facility, you don’t — that means there’s not a plan.
The COVID-19 Vaccination Plan at coronavirus.utah.gov is dated Oct. 1, and it’s not actually a plan for how and where people will get vaccinations. Will we go to doctors’ offices? Pretty inefficient. Pharmacies? They don’t have sufficient staff or space, especially for post-jab observation areas where folks will need to wait 20 minutes to be sure they don’t have an allergic reaction.
Germany has built dozens of temporary vaccination centers and is training flight attendants to help administer shots. Little Maine has a plan to enlist dentists to give folks the jab. Is the Utah Department of Health allowed the authority to develop an actual plan or is Spencer Cox’s coronavirus task force creating it, maybe with some no-bid contracts for those nice donors at Silicon Slopes? Where’s the plan?
Kirsten Johanna Allen, Torrey