South Carolina remains at the bottom of the national ranking in terms of the number of Covid-19 vaccines it has received per 100,000 citizens – continuing an embarrassing trend that this medium has reported several times previously (including here and here).
More worryingly, recent progress in vaccine administration has stalled – with Palmetto’s state dropping seven places in the national ranking since our last report.
According to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), South Carolina received 13,298 Covid-19 takes doses for every 100,000 of its citizens on February 7, 2021. This ranked last nationally among the fifty states (and overseas territories in the U.S.).
When it comes to dose administration, South Carolina ranked 40th nationally – with 11,050 doses administered by 100,000 citizens. A week ago, the state of Palmetto ranked 33rd nationally in this key metric.
Obviously, a large part of this is the lack of distributed doses … since South Carolina seems to be doing a decent job of administering the limited amount of vaccines it is receiving.
However, governor of SC Henry McMaster he was criticized by the left and the right for the ineffective implementation of Covid-19 by his government – a continuation of his unequal response to the pandemic.
Your answer to that criticism? Blaming hospitals for allegedly not dedicating enough human resources to the effort …
Not surprisingly, this response earned him few friends among frontline healthcare professionals – who at the time were dealing with a record of hospitalizations related to the virus.
McMaster issued his criticism during a visit to Lexington Medical Center – literally standing on a podium in a room of health professionals who administered vaccines.
McMaster has often bragged about his proximity to the former US president Donald Trump, whose administration was responsible for the initial distribution of the vaccine through “Operation Warp Speed”.
Trump was attacked this week by the U.S. President Joe Biden, who told CBS ‘ Norah O’Donnell that its predecessor screwed up the launch.
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“The circumstance related to the way the administration (Trump) was dealing with COVID was even more dire than we thought,” said Biden. “We think they indicated that there was a lot more vaccine available. And it ended up not being the case. That’s why we increase in every way that we can. “
That’s true? It certainly seems so for South Carolina … which brought the former president to the White House in 2016 about the then governor’s vociferous objections Nikki Haley.
Of course, Biden also owes his White House ancestry to the state of Palmetto, which earned him a desperately needed “First from the South” victory last February.
To be fair to Trump, Biden is copying his plan to deploy military resources to complement frontline health care workers as vaccination campaigns increase across the country.
It is clear that the first “deployment” of these military resources – requested by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – is scheduled for mid-February in California, a state that ranks 16th nationally in terms of doses administered by 100,000 citizens.
It goes without saying that we will continue to closely monitor these vaccination numbers and the associated political ramifications …
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