The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) knows there is a problem and is extremely aware. This agency is doing all it can with what it has to work with. Their awareness should mean we won't be having these problems in the future. The Reuters headline is a result of reporter Reuters Maggie Fox's question: "I want to follow up on this question about the perceptions about the vaccines, is it frustrating to you that people on the one hand are saying, hey, we can't get this vaccine but then there's plenty of people saying don't get the vaccine it's dangerous. I know the last time that there was a shortage of vaccine, you ended up throwing doses away. Is there a risk of that happening here?"The director of the CDC Dr. Thomas Frieden answered in this way: "I think the likelihood is that we are currently in a situation where we too little vaccine in the community. It's quite likely that that too little vaccine is one of the things that's making people more interested in getting vaccinated, frankly. Were we have shortages we see an increase in demand. It is likely also as we produce more vaccine and as both people are given the opportunity to get vaccinated, and as disease maybe wanes in the future, we will have significant amounts of vaccine that can't be used. The challenge at this point is to get what vaccine we have out now available to people, provide it to doctors offices, school, health care facilities and others as rapidly as possible so that as much as is available can be used. One of the messages for states, localities and health providers is not to reserve vaccine that they have available, to give it out as soon as it comes in, because more is on the way. And the production is now in a scaled up mode, so more being produced, not as much as we would like, but more is being produced and made available as soon as it can be."
Maybe you heard what Maggie Fox heard but the entire exchange is available at the CDC website from yesterday. (LISTEN to the entire news conference)
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