We are SO screwed.

[kpete]

How is the vaccine rollout going in Mississippi? Well, they have to change the script that the vaccine call-in center operators are reading.

Bobby Wayne, a retired reverend with prostate cancer and leukemia, had spent a week calling health agencies around his county in Mississippi, trying to find out where to get the Covid-19 vaccine. But when Mr. Wayne, 64, called the state’s hotline on Monday, he said an operator, whose job was to help residents schedule vaccine appointments, gave him unnerving and incorrect information.

“This is the way she put it to me: They had no documentation that the vaccine was effective,” Mr. Wayne said. “And then she asked me did I still want to take it.”

When he told her “yes,” he said the operator replied that there were no appointments available and that he should call again the next morning.

As it happens, Mr. Wayne's daughter is a doctor and she raised holy hell on twitter when her father told her what had happened. The MS Department of Health said there had been a miscommunication, the words were taken out of context, and the script will be changed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/us/covid-vaccine-moderna-mississippi.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage
via:
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2021/03/thursday-is-new-jobless-day_25.html#comment-5316846607

[Fullduplexxx]

1. They are deliberately trying to stymie the recovery

[uponit7771]

4. +1, and not giving a damn if they kill people but these people are the ones we're supposed to trust

... democracy to if they ever gain back power.

We better make sure they never do, we'll be Belarus if kGQP ever gets back in power.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. God forbid the dems get to do anything to help people ....nt

[OneGrassRoot]

2. I've read accounts of...

anti-vaxx group members (on FB, of course) are setting up appointments for the vaccination and deliberately not showing, in an effort to sabotage.

We really are in deep shit seeing how many shit humans there are.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Wow. That's incredible. I just got my 2nd Pfizer shot

this morning in KCMO. There were hundreds showing up.

[central scrutinizer]

6. From the info sheet I got when I got my Pfizer jab here in Eugene, Oregon:

“The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is an unapproved vaccine that may prevent COVID-19. There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19. The FDA has authorized the emergency use ... in individuals 16 years of age and older...”

Maybe the Mississippi person was handed something like this and told to read the caveat.

This might have been on the online appointment registration but I didn’t read it. All I wanted was to get an appointment before they filled up. Got my second shot 6 days ago.