Ohio State employee Lauren Chisholm, left, receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination from Robert Weber in Columbus, Ohio, December 14, 2020. AP Photo/Jay LaPrete
The CDC unveiled an interactive vaccine-tracking map on Thursday.
The map shows how many vaccine doses each state has been allocated and how many shots each has administered so far.
The totals tell a grim story: The US fell far short of its goal to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of 2020. At its current pace, it would take the country 9 years to vaccinate the whole population.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unveiled major updates to its vaccine tracking dashboard on Thursday, including an interactive map that shows how vaccine distribution and administration is going in every US state and territory.
Previously, the website tracked only two broad measurements of US COVID-19 vaccination efforts: doses distributed and doses administered in total nationwide.
Now, the tracker lists the following details for each state: total doses distributed, total doses distributed per 100,000 people, and the number of people who have received their first dose. It also includes information on how many doses have been distributed and allocated in total, as well as how many doses have been distributed to and administered in long-term care facilities. You can access the map here.
The CDC’s interactive map tracks vaccine allocation and distribution across the US. CDC
The tracker is slated get updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, except for holidays (in those cases, the tracker will be updated the day after a holiday).
At its current pace, it would take the US 9 years to vaccinate everyone
So far, the numbers in the CDC tracker tell an unfortunate story: the US has fallen far short of the Trump administration’s goal to get vaccines to 20 million people by the end of 2020.
Only about 2.8 million people in the US have gotten their first vaccine dose. That’s about 14% of what Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine initiative, predicted in mid-November. The true number of Americans vaccinated is likely a bit higher than the dashboard shows, however, since it takes time for the CDC to aggregate and process local data.
Several states, including South Dakota and Connecticut, have distributed over 40% of the vaccines they’ve been allocated so far. But others, including California and Ohio, have administered less than 20%. Kansas has only administered about 10.5% of its allocated doses.
A combination of factors is to blame for these delays. For one, distribution and administration plans were left to states, but local public-health agencies are overwhelmed with other elements of pandemic management, since cases and deaths are at all-time highs and staff are exhausted. The US saw 229,000 new cases and 3,744 deaths – a new record – on Wednesday alone.
A lack of federal funding for state vaccination programs has also contributed. In Seattle, health officials have so little funding for COVID-19 efforts that they’re worried they’ll have to choose between testing and vaccinations, according to Reuters. The aid package Congress recently passed allots $8 billion for vaccine distribution, however.
Then there’s the challenge of storing Pfizer’s vaccine at the necessary ultra-low temperatures. And on top of all that, some states, including Oregon, Iowa, and Maryland, have received fewer doses than they anticipated.
President-elect Joe Biden criticized the slow rollout of vaccines on Tuesday.
“The effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” Biden said in Wilmington, Delaware. At the current rate, he said, “it’s going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people.”
Biden said he wants to ramp up the current pace to at least 1 million shots per day; right now, it’s averaging only about 200,000 per day. Based on the US population of 330.7 million according to the US Census Bureau, it would take the US over 3,300 days – just over 9 years – to inject everyone with two doses at the current rate.
President Donald Trump defended his administration’s actions after Biden’s remarks.
“It is up to the states to distribute the vaccines once brought to the designated areas by the federal government,” he said on Twitter. “We have not only developed the vaccines, including putting up money to move the process along quickly, but gotten them to the states.”
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Mfanyakazi wa Jimbo la Ohio Lauren Chisholm, kushoto, anapokea chanjo ya COVID-19 ya Pfizer-BioNTech kutoka kwa Robert Weber huko Columbus, Ohio, Desemba 14, 2020. Picha ya AP: JPMorgan: CDC inazindua ramani ya ufuatiliaji wa chanjo Ramani hiyo inaonyesha ni dozi ngapi za chanjo ambazo kila jimbo limewekwa na ni dozi ngapi ambazo kila jimbo limetumia hadi sasa. Takwimu hizo zinaonyesha kuwa Marekani haikutimiza lengo lake la kuwapa chanjo watu milioni 20 kufikia mwishoni mwa mwaka 2020. Kwa mwendo wa sasa, itachukua miaka tisa kuajiri idadi nzima ya watu. Tembelea ukurasa wa nyumbani wa Business Insider kwa hadithi zaidi. Kituo cha Kudhibiti na Kuzuia Magonjwa (CDC) kilitangaza sasisho kubwa kwa dashibodi yake ya ufuatiliaji wa chanjo siku ya Alhamisi, ikiwa ni pamoja na ramani ya maingiliano ambayo inaonyesha jinsi usambazaji wa chanjo na utawala unavyoendelea katika kila jimbo na eneo la Marekani. Hapo awali, tovuti hiyo ilifuatilia vipimo viwili tu vya jumla vya juhudi za chanjo ya COVID-19 ya Amerika: dozi zilizosambazwa na dozi zilizotumiwa kwa jumla nchini kote. "Sasa, tracker inaorodhesha maelezo yafuatayo kwa kila jimbo: ""kiasi cha jumla cha dozi zilizosambazwa, jumla ya dozi zilizosambazwa kwa watu 100,000, na idadi ya watu ambao wamepokea dozi yao ya kwanza.""" Pia ni pamoja na habari kuhusu kiasi cha dawa zilizotolewa na kugawanywa kwa jumla, na kiasi cha dawa zilizotolewa na kutolewa katika vituo vya utunzaji wa muda mrefu. Unaweza kupata ramani hapa. Ramani ya maingiliano ya CDC inafuatilia mgawo na usambazaji wa chanjo kote Marekani. Mfuatiliaji wa CDC umepangwa kusasishwa Jumatatu, Jumatano, na Ijumaa, isipokuwa siku za likizo (katika kesi hizo, mfuatiliaji utawasilishwa siku baada ya likizo). Kwa kiwango cha sasa, itachukua miaka tisa kwa Marekani kuwa chanjo ya kila mtu, lakini hadi sasa, takwimu katika mfuatiliaji wa CDC zinaonyesha hadithi mbaya: Marekani imeshindwa kufikia lengo la utawala wa Trump la kupata chanjo kwa watu milioni 20 mwishoni mwa 2020. Watu milioni 2.8 tu nchini Marekani wamepokea chanjo ya kwanza. Hiyo ni karibu 14% ya kile Operesheni ya Kasi ya Warp, mpango wa chanjo ya coronavirus ya utawala wa Trump, ulitabiri katikati ya Novemba. Idadi halisi ya Wamarekani waliopigwa chanjo ya COVID-19 ni ya juu kidogo kuliko inavyoonekana kwenye dashibodi, hata hivyo, kwani inachukua muda kwa CDC kukusanya na kusindika data za ndani. Majimbo kadhaa, ikiwa ni pamoja na South Dakota na Connecticut, yamesambaza zaidi ya asilimia 40 ya chanjo ambazo zimetengwa hadi sasa. Lakini wengine, ikiwa ni pamoja na California na Ohio, wameingiza chini ya 20%. Kansas imetoa asilimia 10.5 tu ya dozi zilizotengwa. Kuna mambo kadhaa yanayosababisha kuchelewa huko. Kwa mfano, mipango ya usambazaji na usimamizi iliachwa kwa majimbo, lakini mashirika ya afya ya umma ya mitaa yanajaa mambo mengine ya usimamizi wa janga hilo, kwani visa na vifo viko kwenye kiwango cha juu kabisa na wafanyikazi wamechoka. Marekani iliona visa vipya vya maambukizi 229,000 na vifo 3,744 - rekodi mpya - siku ya Jumatano pekee. Ukosefu wa fedha za shirikisho kwa ajili ya programu za chanjo za majimbo pia umechangia. Katika Seattle, maafisa wa afya wana fedha kidogo sana kwa juhudi za COVID-19 kwamba wana wasiwasi watakuwa na kuchagua kati ya kupima na chanjo, kulingana na Reuters. Mkataba wa misaada uliopitishwa hivi karibuni na Bunge la Marekani umepanga kutumia dola bilioni 8 kwa ajili ya kugawanya chanjo. Kisha kuna changamoto ya kuhifadhi chanjo ya Pfizer katika joto la chini sana linalohitajika. Kwa kuongezea, jimbo la Oregon, Iowa na Maryland limepokea dozi chache kuliko ilivyotarajiwa. Rais mteule wa Marekani Joe Biden ameshutumu hatua ya polepole ya kuandaa chanjo za COVID-19 "Jitihada za kusambaza na kutoa chanjo hiyo hazifanyi maendeleo kama inavyopaswa,"" alisema Biden huko Wilmington, Delaware. "Biden alisema ""itakuwa inachukua miaka, sio miezi, kuwa chanjo ya watu wa Marekani"" na ""atataka kuongeza kasi ya sasa hadi angalau shots milioni moja kwa siku, kwa sasa ni wastani wa 200,000 kwa siku.""" Kulingana na Idara ya sensa ya Marekani, idadi ya watu nchini Marekani ni milioni 330.7 na itachukua zaidi ya siku 3,300 - zaidi ya miaka tisa - kuingiza chanjo mbili kwa kila mtu kwa kiwango cha sasa. Rais Donald Trump alitetea hatua za utawala wake baada ya taarifa za Biden. "Ni juu ya majimbo kusambaza chanjo hizo mara moja zinapoletwa kwenye maeneo yaliyoteuliwa na serikali ya shirikisho", alisema kwenye Twitter. "Hatujaendeleza tu chanjo, ikiwa ni pamoja na kuweka pesa ili kuhamisha mchakato haraka, lakini tukawapeleka kwa majimbo. """