Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement on Facebook:
109,354!
I am so proud of the work that has been done by so many people over the last two weeks to help protect the most vulnerable in our state. We had men and women in uniform (Mississippi National Guard members) standing in the snow directing traffic earlier this week at our state run sites. Many of our healthcare heroes have been working overtime to help protect the people in their hometowns. And most of our long-term care facilities have either received their first doses or have appointments scheduled to get it in the next two weeks.
On January 3, it was reported that Mississippi was ranked 50th in the nation in vaccine distribution. After three weeks of having vaccine in the state, MS had only vaccinated 20,500.
Yesterday, we inoculated our 100,000th Mississippian. In fact, in the last 11 days we have pushed that number to a total of 109,354 shots in arms. We have surpassed approximately 10 other states in per capita vaccinations in those 11 days. We are set to overtake North Carolina and Virginia - and several other states - as soon as this weekend.
I’m a numbers guy and I’m proud we are moving up the charts in total vaccinations. I’m pleased that many of our healthcare heroes will be getting their 2nd doses in the coming days (if not already)!
But the numbers that matter most to me: 35,890 Mississippians over the age of 75 have gotten their first shot.
An additional 11,354 Mississippians over the age of 65.
Yes, we expedited the plan to get inoculations to these two categories!
Why? Because 80% of our fatalities have come from that age group.
So 47,244 Mississippians in our most vulnerable populations are better protected today than they were on January 3.
We also have an additional 30,000 appointments that are already filled for the week of 1/18 at our state run sites. Our partners in clinics, hospitals and FQHCs will get an additional 6,000+ first doses this week. In addition, there are currently 144 hospitals and private clinics that have approximately 50,000 doses that can be put in arms in the coming week.
As of the data I received from MSDH on Friday morning, the hospitals/clinics had received 116,330 doses and done 61,926 inoculations. 26,275 of those are booster doses so they should have 1st dose capacity of approximately 25-30,000 in the coming week (depending on how many they do over this weekend.)
We are currently reporting 50,342 completed this week (this will go up as we have sites open in the Delta today) for an average over 10,000 inoculations per day this week. We should increase that number in the upcoming week.
And we will soon have more first dose appointments For scheduling the weeks of 1/25, 2/1, and 2/8 for those over the age of 65.
It hasn’t gone perfectly and I know that. But I’m incredibly proud of my fellow Mississippians that are getting the job done and I hope you are too.
God Bless, Mississippi!
15 comments:
"The most vulnerable..." Would that be the 16-year old fat smokers?
Any stats on how many people with tinfoil hats have been vaccinated?
Unfortunately there will no follow up press releases if we discover horrific side effects. And you can’t even file a claim in the Vaccine Court (yes it’s real) because Operation Warp Speed is exempt from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund that was created to compensate the families of children irreparably harmed or killed by vaccines.
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
See that dot gov address? This ain’t tin foil you ignorant shills.
So we have moved up from worst to #40. I'll take it.
And let's get into the top half of the U.S.!
Since he's 'a numbers guy', I assume he is aware that we only have two telephone numbers that can be called and both are busy forever. A 'numbers guy' will also know that these offices are staffed only during what state employees consider a normal work day...8:16 a.m. until 4:51 p.m. and that the phones are not manned at night or on weekends, when they should be.
Get off your pompous ass, Tater, and get this program in gear. Come back and talk when we are in the top ten. No excuse for the sluggish roll out. When we accept mediocrity (or less) that's what we'll have.
But Tate....it’s a hoax? Democrats did this right?
You didn’t wear a mask....but now you want us to wear masks?
You are a numbers guy....number 2.
@ 10:54, thanks for the heads-up, I speak as a child irreparably affected by the Salk Polio vaccine, which I received circa 1955. I didn't get to use an iron lung, leg braces, or wheel chair. All I got out of the deal was immunization.
Please share all the irreparable harm children have suffered/are suffering from the dread COVID vaccination plot. Talk about it. What is the problem? What are the risks?
The problem and the risks of not seizing any opportunity to control the pandemic are lots of dead people, including children. Extrapolate the deaths from the 1918-1920 pandemic to today's world population and you get two billion. With lots and lots of sick people at the same time medical resources are overwhelmed. People requiring care for other, unrelated reasons, including little kids who spill their bikes, bump their heads, have leukemia, die.
Now tell me all the reasons why this thing is not going to last another year, or more.
I'm thinking we are in a world-wide emergency and public health requires steps into the unknown. But what do I know? I'm just a dumba$$ who has survived 76 years taking every possible vaccination offered me.
More evidence of the government sticking it to us.
My wife and I received our 1st dose last Wednesday at St. D MEA. They gave us an appointment for the 1st week in February to receive our 2nd dose. Yesterday we were informed that the state had pulled all doses from private sources and we would have to go through the Health Dept. to try and get our 2nd. Good luck with that!
This clown in the governor's mansion has no idea what he's doing and someone with some common sense needs to take over this Charlie Foxtrot before it's too late.
10:54, we had absolutely no side affects from the shot, and we live in a county that has the 4th highest rate of cases in the state. It was damn sure worth the risk.
Is Tate on the ground over at the health department running this thing himself? Geez, you Tate haters need to get a life. Remember that the people actually rolling this thing out are state employees, for crying out loud. What did you expect?
NUMBERS...Increase the number of personnel at the call center to at least double what it is now. I don't know the logistics of that, but, if required, also increase the number of incoming lines dramatically.
NUMBERS...Put these employees on three 8 hour shifts.
NUMBERS...Increase the phone in availability to SEVEN days per week.
Get some high school seniors to make the websites work.
If Tate is serious about getting off the bottom, he'll whip this thing into shape instead of handling it like a state employee who demands his coffee breaks, 8 hours and days off.
I'm just glad the government is not involved in the medical marijuana Charlie Foxtrot...Oh, Wait...
Missing from Tate's self-congratulatory statement is the number of vaccines that have been already delivered to Mississippi: 282,625. That means just over 1/3 of them have been put into people's arms and almost 175K are sitting on shelves ready to go.
The rate is going to have to go up a lot to achieve even half the population vaccinated by the end of June. We've hit 109K so far, but we need over 3,000,000 to give half of Mississippians their two-shot regimen.
This isn't going away any time soon. Maybe by the time schools start back in August things will be under control.
I will point out that the hospitalization rate has gone down noticeably over the last week. Hopefully that reflects the results of the initial vaccinations in the long-term care residents who made up a disproportionate number of the sick and dead.
Not generally a Reeves fan, but I'd say he's doing a decent job under the circumstances.
I'm not sure why so many are complaining about busy phone lines when the online option is readily available. I went online a couple of weeks ago and have since been vaccinated. I had to go out of town a ways, but I took the first available appointment rather than take any more chances. I've heard more than once the comment that "I don't want to be the last soldier to die in the war."
We went to Dept. of Health in Canton today for our scheduled (1st) Moderna vaccine. We were told by the very professional Natl. Guard members that they no longer have Moderna and were given Pfizer today.
No thanks.
1:34 - You think Tate is doing a good job because you have zero metrics by which to evaluate what a 'good job' is. Good compared to what? What are your measures? What training do you have that enables you to rate the actions of a governor in this regard? Are you familiar with percentiles enough to understand how close to the bottom 49 is, or even 40?
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