With the current omicron surge and the holidays, there have been serious issues with availability of testing and vaccines/boosters.
Here in Mass, getting a vaccination or booster was extremely difficult since thanksgiving. For the past week or two scheduling an appointment has been nearly impossible.
As for testing, at home-tests in Boston/Eastern Mass have essentially been sold out since Friday/Saturday. Testing appointments are pretty much booked and walk in appointments have people waiting hours.
Not to get too political, but one again our country has been caught with its pants down around its ankles. The actions of the federal government expanding testing and vax sites, as well as at home testing, frankly is probably too little, too late. With the speed the virus is and will spread, by the time a lot of these initiatives are put in place this wave have might already passed for the most part. And we can’t keep disassembling surge resources if we can’t put them back into place fast enough. We’ve known about omicron for a month and it seems only within the past few days has the alarm been sounded. It’s amazing how lessons have not been learned.
Hopefully omicron is significantly less dangerous than delta, though there is still debate as to how less dangerous. There is still a significant risk our hospitals will be overrun with the vast number of people infected. And with so many people infected, the greater the risk of mutation resistant against vaccination.
Here in Mass, getting a vaccination or booster was extremely difficult since thanksgiving. For the past week or two scheduling an appointment has been nearly impossible.
As for testing, at home-tests in Boston/Eastern Mass have essentially been sold out since Friday/Saturday. Testing appointments are pretty much booked and walk in appointments have people waiting hours.
Not to get too political, but one again our country has been caught with its pants down around its ankles. The actions of the federal government expanding testing and vax sites, as well as at home testing, frankly is probably too little, too late. With the speed the virus is and will spread, by the time a lot of these initiatives are put in place this wave have might already passed for the most part. And we can’t keep disassembling surge resources if we can’t put them back into place fast enough. We’ve known about omicron for a month and it seems only within the past few days has the alarm been sounded. It’s amazing how lessons have not been learned.
Hopefully omicron is significantly less dangerous than delta, though there is still debate as to how less dangerous. There is still a significant risk our hospitals will be overrun with the vast number of people infected. And with so many people infected, the greater the risk of mutation resistant against vaccination.