We need more than hope to overcome the Coronavirus pandemic!

“We can make it to the mountaintop through the desert, and we will cross this divide. Our light has always found its way through the darkness. And there’s hope on the road up ahead” — Bruce Springsteen

The story of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) losing track of 20 million vaccine doses illustrates how wide the divide is in conquering the Coronavirus pandemic, much wider than simply developing the vaccine itself.

According to the New York Times, “Last month Rochelle Walensky, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported that owing to failures of planning and monitoring, the federal government has essentially lost track of some 20 million vaccine doses that were delivered to the states during the previous administration.”

Apparently a large part of the problem seems to be a wildly ineffective vaccine management system which the federal government gave the company Deloitte a $44 million no-bid contract to develop that all states could use to manage their vaccine rollouts. However, Deloitte’s resulting product was so unreliable many health departments abandoned it.