The upswing, week 10
Mar. 28th, 2021 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellAs spring settles in, the weather is turning milder and sunnier. Well, except for today, which has been cold, rainy, windy, and sullenly overcast, as though the calendar has jumped back to February all of a sudden.
Oregon's vaccine trends are mirroring the rest of the country. When the state gave individual counties the option to start allowing vaccination of the next groups of people last week, it was the rural counties that started opening it up. The Portland-area counties did not, because vaccine hesitancy is much lower here. Which is great for herd immunity in the long run, but frustrating in the short term.
So tomorrow, the SO and I will finally be eligible to be vaccinated in the Portland area. Meanwhile, the schedule has been accelerated again, so that we get one week to scramble for appointments before the next large group becomes eligible. We've discussed driving to Salem (an hour south) if we spot single-shot appointments there. (Oregon doesn't care if you go to a different county to be vaccinated; it's allocating doses based partly on ability to deliver shots rather than strictly by population.)
Any minute now the vaccine shortage is supposed to turn into a glut. But right now it still feels like a desperate scramble.
Oregon's vaccine trends are mirroring the rest of the country. When the state gave individual counties the option to start allowing vaccination of the next groups of people last week, it was the rural counties that started opening it up. The Portland-area counties did not, because vaccine hesitancy is much lower here. Which is great for herd immunity in the long run, but frustrating in the short term.
So tomorrow, the SO and I will finally be eligible to be vaccinated in the Portland area. Meanwhile, the schedule has been accelerated again, so that we get one week to scramble for appointments before the next large group becomes eligible. We've discussed driving to Salem (an hour south) if we spot single-shot appointments there. (Oregon doesn't care if you go to a different county to be vaccinated; it's allocating doses based partly on ability to deliver shots rather than strictly by population.)
Any minute now the vaccine shortage is supposed to turn into a glut. But right now it still feels like a desperate scramble.
