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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on April 07, 2021, 07:10:36 pm
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Gretchen Whitmer To WH: Stop Allocating Vaccines By Population And Send More To My State
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2021/04/07/gretchen-whitmer-wh-stop-allocating-vaccines-population-send-state/ (https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2021/04/07/gretchen-whitmer-wh-stop-allocating-vaccines-population-send-state/)
Via Jim Geraghty, everyone who lives outside Michigan is reading that headline and thinking “nope.†But given the state of its outbreak — which is freakishly bad relative to all other U.S. states right now — there’s a case to be made for her position. Especially if you’re worried about Michigan’s problem, which is being driven by the more contagious British variant, spilling over regionally and eventually nationally.
Their daily average in cases stands at 6,697, the highest number since early December and less than a thousand off their peak since the start of the pandemic. Just five U.S. states account for nearly half of all national COVID cases right now but Michigan stands apart among them. It had the most cases yesterday of any jurisdiction despite having a much smaller population than states like California and Texas. And other states with rising case counts are seeing slow daily increases, not the classic soaring curve that Michigan is experiencing.
Pretty much from Day 1, vaccine distribution to US states has been based on states' populations. Were US society rational this request for a need-based distribution change would be fine. IRL, were this request granted it would open the floodgates to all kinds of activists' demands for preferences. So :shrug: .