What is the vaccine bottleneck?

Production is only part of the problem.

Distribution has been poorly done.

In some areas, facilities, and enough trained people to do the injections have been problematic.

It was incompetently handled from the beginning. Only now are we seeing serious attention being paid.

Is there a way to determine how many vaccines are being made per company daily?

I would expect to see tents all over the US where vaccinations are happening 24-hours per day. The fact that there is not leads me to believe that production is the problem. Can’t we throw some amount of money at this problem to increase production significantly?

Temperature is, IMO. Vaccines are no good after they go bad. The distributors probably don’t want unused vaccine to just be sitting around unused in questionable refrigeration.
And there were bound to be distribution bugs that had to be worked out. After all, it’s not every year that we have a pandemic.

I don’t know the process of creating the vaccines so it’s hard to answer this question. Does it take a day to create or weeks?

It’s not the production. It’s the politicization and decentralization of responsibility by the previous administration, leaving logistical headaches to the states.

^ You are saying that the supply of vaccine doses is far greater than the administration of the vaccine? Do you have any sources for this? I can’t find any info on how many doses have been generated. And more importantly, I haven’t seen anything regarding how many doses are possible?

We’re a month into the new administration during what is arguably larger than any domestic and global threat we’ve ever faced. If what you are saying is true, this is an indictment of the Biden administration as well.

^^Let me rephrase:
It’s not the production as much as the politicization and decentralization of responsibility by the previous administration, leaving logistical headaches to the states.

The production capacity is available. It’s my understanding that distribution and storage logistics are being finalized from the top down. IMHO it makes no sense to ramp up production if there are no logistics in place for distribution.

The logistical planning was hampered by the Trump administration’s laissez-faire self-serving attitude towards the pandemic and the resistance to a smooth transition.

I don’t have sources available at this time, but I’ll happily share with you in the next several hours.

^ Thanks.

I’m having a difficult time reconciling what I would have expected to be a response to an attack on the US vs what I’m seeing. And I am completely unable to find any data on number of available doses, number of possible available doses, vaccination rate, possible vaccination rate, etc.

My nephew is in the National Guard, and his unit was activated to go to DC for the inauguration. He was held back, however, because he was med certified and the talk was that he was going to be tasked with giving vaccinations. Then that talk fizzled out. If there is any use to be had of the National Guard, it would be to assist in 24-hour vaccination.

I hear so-called bickering between the Dems and Reps about checks and unemployment benefits. But I don’t hear anyone talking about dropping everything we have on x, where x = whatever is keeping us from offering vaccinations to every single person in the US next week.