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Here’s Why Distribution of the Vaccine Is Taking Longer Than Expected

 

In Florida, less than one-quarter of delivered coronavirus vaccines have been used, even as older people sat in lawn chairs all night waiting for their shots. In Puerto Rico, last week’s vaccine shipments did not arrive until the workers who would have administered them had left for the Christmas holiday. In California, doctors are worried about whether there will be enough hospital staff members to both administer vaccines and tend to the swelling number of Covid-19 patients.

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Every day is an emergency’: The pandemic is worsening psychiatric bed shortages nationwide

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically cut the availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, with facilities across the country forced to reduce their capacity to meet social distancing requirements, stem outbreaks of the virus, or repurpose psychiatric beds to care for the surge of Covid-19 patients.

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DATA BASE: Showing how full hospital I.C.U.s are in each US location

See how the coronavirus pandemic has affected recent hospital capacity in the map below, which shows data reported by individual hospitals and averaged over the week ending Dec. 10. Health officials said that the data should not discourage sick people from seeking care.

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