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Feels like one of the hardest pieces of covering vaccine rollout from a local perspective is figuring out which bottlenecks/logistical failures are federal, which are state & which are local.
Every state is dealing with inadequate supply & thus having to make unpopular decisions about priorities. Oregon's prioritization seems particularly unpopular. Then there's the logistics of actual events, registration, and the info/comms piece.
Oregon's actual vaccination rate is pretty solid for the US - we're ahead of both WA and CA in share of population vaccinated. But it's wildly uneven by county - Salem & a couple rural counties are super on it. Portland Metro rollout has been a lot slower.
I think there's a perception vax rollout in Oregon is slower than it is bc a) there was a lack of early clear communication about priority order and b) our 1A group was just so damn big it felt like we were hitting fewer ppl bc other states moved to 1B faster.
Given that Deschutes County is already vaccinating 75+, for example, feels like some Oregon seniors will be getting vaccines based solely on age by mid-Feb. That's not far off when my grandma in WA is getting hers - but she's known that for weeks vs finding out piecemeal.
Anyway, I am idly musing after work bc it's what I do - there are records requests pending with counties & OHA on much of this and I'm doing what I can to find out, but always curious to hear how others' perceptions stack up to mine bc it helps me cover all of this.
My tl;dr here is not supposed to be that OR is getting an unfair rap for public anger at its rollout, btw. Comms matter! Prioritization decisions matter hugely! And no state is really doing this well except maybe AK & WV.
