re: More than 12 million vaccine doses sent to states

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Med students do not have 12 hours a day to dedicate to giving shots and they gain basically nothing from the “educational experience”.

You could offer them the opportunity to give back via volunteering a couple hours on weekends.

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But that's what I mean by limiting outside the box thinking. Them not having that 12 hours is based on a constraint (graduation date will be X), as if the thought "ok, what if we made the graduation date X+1 month to cover holidays" never came up.

This whole process should have been:

1. Mission: Deliver the vaccine as quickly as HUMANLY possible.

2. Government's job: Eliminate every administrative barrier to doing so (holidays, weekends, mandatory use of vacation, etc... all count as barriers).

3. Private/Public Industry job: Brainstorm and implement the best possible ideas to meet step 1, advise the government in step 2 as to which barriers need to be moved.

States will complain randomly about money, but even if funding is a portion of the problem, I guarantee you if the states came out with a coherent statement like "We need $30 million dollars to cover the administrative and logistics cost of bringing on board 200 retired medical volunteers to continue our vaccination program through the holidays", the money could have been gladly allocated - either through the feds or even private donation. Similarly with the money that would have been required to pay the state employees double time through the holidays.