Huh. County "vaccine" site closes after only 27% of the population has received (one dose of) the experimental drug treatment. That sounds just a tad short of the various speculations about reaching "herd immunity". Be prepared to wear your mask, "social distance", and not have more than 10 people ever gather inside ever again. Fucking moron tyrants.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/23/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-casesUS vaccination sites starting to close as demand dropsSome mass vaccination sites are now starting to close due to a lack of customers, and some counties are declining vaccine shipments as millions of doses have yet to be allocated. The seven-day average of vaccinations has declined in recent days, to 2.86 million doses a day as of Friday, from 3.38 million last week, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, government officials in many states are focusing on having patients vaccinated at their doctors’ offices. The pace of vaccination in the U.S. has slowed, potentially from the “pause” in administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot for safety review over brain blot clot cases.
“We no longer have a reserve of people who want to be vaccinated to reach into to show up and take those doses,” Mr. Menchhofer said. Officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, said that the county would shut its three mass vaccination sites by the end of May.
Of 16,000 appointment slots available this week, only 6,000 were filled, according to The New York Times. Nearly half of the counties in Iowa are not accepting new doses of the vaccine from the state’s allotment because demand has dipped, according to The Associated Press. In Florida, Palm Beach County plans to close mass vaccination clinics with thousands of available vaccine slots unclaimed. In West Virginia, a vaccine clinic at a casino/race track parking garage is opening shots to out-of-state residents to address lagging demand. In Arizona, a plan fell through that would have opened a federally run vaccine site in Tucson since demand is slipping.
While every person 16 and older in the country became eligible for a coronavirus vaccination on Monday, falling demand has pushed Mercer County, Ohio — where
27 percent of adults have at least one dose — to announce the closing of its mass vaccination site on May 7.
In the first few months of the year, the site in the county, which has 41,000 residents and borders Indiana, would fill up its 400 appointments in an hour or two, said Jason Menchhofer, the county health administrator. But demand has fallen precipitously in the last several weeks, and last week the county ended up wasting two doses, which was a first.
“We no longer have a reserve of people who want to be vaccinated to reach into to show up and take those doses,” Mr. Menchhofer said.