I did some quick math...if we want to vaccinate 70% of the roughly 210M adults in the US this year, we have to give shots to a little over 8,000 peeps/per day/per state. Now double that, cuz we need to do it twice. Doesn't seem unattainable, but it feels like a really optimistic goal.
16,000 people per day? Per state?
Well, where I'm at, in Southern California, there's 20 CVS Pharmacies within a 5 mile radius. Not counting Walgreens or Rite Aid or anything else.
800 people per day would be very aggressive.
But 100? 10 per hour? over a 10 hour day? That's no big deal.
So, if we had 160 CVS Pharmacies in California, each doing 100 a day -- aggressive, sure, but not unreasonable with a committed staff and good workflow.
I have no idea how many CVS Pharmacies there are in CA.
So, at least for California, 16,000 a day does not seem unreasonable, as long as they're not all in Blythe.
And CA will need to do a bunch more that 16,000 per day.
Mind, I've seen LASIK done. A single shop can almost do 10 surgeries an hour (yes, it's aggressive and unreasonable). They pile them up in the waiting room, and push them through. The surgeon never leaves his seat.
This is a simple injection. Parallize all of the form filling out and disclaimers up front, and you'd get get a stick every 2m by the nurse, easy. If it was the military, you'd have it done in less than 30s.
Also, back in the day, they used one of those
Jet Injector things on us in 4th grade for vaccinations. That was a Bugs Bunny Baseball conga line.
Obviously, they won't use that here.