A vaccine delivered today at the height of the pandemic is worth more than a vaccine delivered a month from now — because more people are dying now than will be dying next month. This is especially true because we know that the first vaccine dose provides significant immunity. Defenders of saving doses say we don’t know how long immunity lasts from the first dose, so we need to make sure we have second doses available. But should that happen, we have a much bigger problem as a country than not getting people second doses. If he lets the HHS withhold tens of millions of vaccine doses this month, Americans will needlessly die.

Source: Washington Post December 24, 2020 23:15 UTC