As of the morning of the 23rd, only 1 million doses of the new coronary pneumonia vaccine produced by Pfizer-Biotech has been vaccinated, about one-third of the first batch of vaccines sent last week. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 9.5 million doses of vaccine — including Modena’s vaccine — have now been distributed to states.

Although hospitals have begun to provide Modena's vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet reported relevant data, and the vaccination reports of Pfizer and Modena's vaccines may also be delayed.

From the first week, the slow pace hardly accelerated. At that time, 614,000 doses of vaccine were vaccinated, but nearly 2.9 million doses were distributed.

The hospital said that the first batch of vaccinations started slowly on the 14th because they had to prepare the frozen vaccine for use, find someone to manage the vaccination clinic, and ensure proper social distancing before and after vaccination. Some people said that they only had about 100 doses of the vaccine on the first day.

The Trump administration promised to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of the year, but did not provide much funding to achieve this goal. This means that nearly 19 million doses will be injected in 9 days or more than 2 million people will be vaccinated in one day, including Christmas.

Moncef Slavi, the chief adviser of the U.S. "Warp Speed" operation, said in a telephone interview: "The promise we can make is to provide vaccine doses." He pointed out that the speed of injecting vaccines on people's arms is "more rapid than we thought." Be slow".

Jason Schwartz, assistant professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health, called the initial data "disheartening" and said that "to get vaccines injected as fast as we can make vaccines, this challenge will only increase. Come bigger".

He said that the model made by experts at the hospital showed that it takes 10 minutes to inject Pfizer's new crown pneumonia vaccine, which is about 2 to 3 times the time of influenza vaccination, because the vaccine is in a frozen state and requires a thawing process. Patients must maintain social distancing before and after vaccination and be monitored for allergic reactions.

The report pointed out that the United States will receive 170 million doses of influenza vaccine within a few months each year. However, due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the United States must give most Americans three times this number of vaccines by July next year. At the current rate, the United States seems to be able to inject only one-third of the vaccines given in a week, thus highlighting this gap.

The current COVID-19 assistance program of the US Congress has set aside more than $8 billion for vaccine distribution, but the program has been postponed.

Experts say: "If you don't know if you can pay in January, you can't hire people and train them in December."

According to a report from Agence France-Presse in Washington on December 23, Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that since the launch of the largest immunization campaign in U.S. history on December 14, each jurisdiction has given the first dose of vaccination. There are more than 1 million people.

Moncef Slavi, the chief adviser of the government's "speed" operation, said that the target of 20 million people vaccinated this month is "unlikely to be achieved." He also said that due to frequent problems in the distribution of vaccines to injection sites, vaccine injections began to be delayed. But he is still confident that 100 million people will be vaccinated in the first quarter of 2021, and another 100 million people will be vaccinated in the second quarter.

Top scientist Anthony Fauci said that if the new crown vaccine is distributed smoothly, it is possible for the United States to achieve widespread herd immunity by next summer.

Fauci is optimistic that if the vaccine is distributed smoothly, the United States may achieve "herd immunity" next summer. The picture shows Fauci receiving his first dose of the new crown vaccine on the 22nd. (Reuters)