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US has subsidized vaccine and antibody therapies to the tune of ~$9B and has obligations from the manufacturers of successful
vaccines for 300M doses. These will be given to recipients in US at no cost to vaccinee, but there may be a charge to the
insurance co for administration costs. Medicare has allowed $17 for first shot and $22 for 2d shot as allowable administration
charge. Considering paper work and documentation requirements this is not even break even for small operations. Hence the
need for another $50B or so as a down payment for setting up and funding vaccine sites, which are manned by RNs making
$30-50/hr and others making $15-20/hr. My recent covid vax was run by a university medical school which converted a
parking deck and operates 4hrs/day 6 days/wk as long as vax available. There were ~20 people running it and while I was
there ~30 cars with 1 or 2 people getting shots in each ran through in ~30 minutes.
Considering the $3T in stimulus and hundreds of billions to $Ts lost from decreased economic activity the expenditures above are
not even peanuts. The "PROFITS" old mart worries about are even more trivial.
Additional considerations on the longer term effects of letting covid drag on will be the educational losses by millions of children
some of whom will lose essentially 2 yrs of schooling when you consider shut downs since Mar 2020 and extending in some
cities with avaricious teacher unions til late 2021. And then there are studies like this: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/c...ades-new-study
vaccines for 300M doses. These will be given to recipients in US at no cost to vaccinee, but there may be a charge to the
insurance co for administration costs. Medicare has allowed $17 for first shot and $22 for 2d shot as allowable administration
charge. Considering paper work and documentation requirements this is not even break even for small operations. Hence the
need for another $50B or so as a down payment for setting up and funding vaccine sites, which are manned by RNs making
$30-50/hr and others making $15-20/hr. My recent covid vax was run by a university medical school which converted a
parking deck and operates 4hrs/day 6 days/wk as long as vax available. There were ~20 people running it and while I was
there ~30 cars with 1 or 2 people getting shots in each ran through in ~30 minutes.
Considering the $3T in stimulus and hundreds of billions to $Ts lost from decreased economic activity the expenditures above are
not even peanuts. The "PROFITS" old mart worries about are even more trivial.
Additional considerations on the longer term effects of letting covid drag on will be the educational losses by millions of children
some of whom will lose essentially 2 yrs of schooling when you consider shut downs since Mar 2020 and extending in some
cities with avaricious teacher unions til late 2021. And then there are studies like this: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/c...ades-new-study
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