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  1. Also, the National Archives publishes digital scans of what they received here: https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020 Check 'em out ... same stuff the House and Senate tellers were looking at when they announced the vote.
  2. I looked it up. Each state electoral college assembly makes six copies: One to be sent to the President of the Senate Two to be held by that state's Secretary of State. One of those is held for a year and the other is subject to the order of the President of the Senate. Two to be sent to the Archivist of the United States. Same deal as the states, one copy for the records and one copy to be sent to the Senate if needed. The last copy goes to the district judge where the electors assembled, so I assume the Travis Co judge for Texas. The two copies held for the records for a year are subject to public inspection, so in theory you could demand to see it and they might say come on down.
  3. I took a look at vaccination percentage by Texas county today. What the heck is going on in Cottle County (mostly Paducah, south of Childress)? Cottle Co leads the state with an 81% first-shot immunization rate! Hemphill Co is in second place around 12%. Oddly, no vaccine has been allocated to Cottle Co. Cottle Co is hard hit by COVID, currently 19th in the state according to COVID Act Now. It will be interesting to watch the stats over the next few weeks to see if the vaccine does its job in this county. Travis Co, BTW, is currently in 86th place among Texas counties for first-shot percentage. Behind San Antonio and at half the rate of Lubbock.
  4. Trump also tried this method late in the vote, but by then the play clock had expired:
  5. Congress started on January 3rd. New members are already seated. Right now the senate has 99 members because of the two Georgia runoff elections. Loeffler (GA) lost, but she's still in office, probably until they certify the runoff election in GA. Georgia will then switch from one R senator to two D senators, creating a 50/50 split. Pence still breaks the tie until Harris is sworn in. R's still have the majority until Harris is VP and the two GA senators are sworn in.
  6. Next week, Texas DSHS will focus on getting vaccine to large distribution hubs instead of smaller sites. The idea is to make it simpler to find the vax and sign up for an appointment. Next week is also the last week that reservations are required for long term care facilities, so more vax should go to either these hubs or other locations starting in a few weeks. Happy to see them trying to adjust in real time to what is and isn't working...
  7. yeah, I get that. But right now we are on a pace to finish in 2.5 years, which is not great. Hopefully we can pick up the pace.
  8. So I took a look at weeks 1-4 of vaccine allocation in Travis County, to see where it was going. So far, 94 sites have been allocated vaccine. The top five have 40% of the vaccine and the next five have 20%. Only 12 of the sites have only received more than one allocation. About half of the sites have received only one 100 dose allocation. So there are a lot of sites, but they're not ready for mass distribution. The top sites are all hospitals and I am sure they are mostly vaccinating their staff. The small sites may have enough to cover their employees and maybe a few extra folks, but they are not getting regular weekly deliveries. They do not know when or if they will get more. There is a regular cadence of deliveries to the states, but not a regular flow of vaccine to the sites. The top five sites are Seton Medical Center, UT Health Austin (Dell Med), St. Davids Medical Center, North Austin Medical Center, and Dell Children's. The next five are Dell Seton at UT, South Austin Medical Center, Communitycare North Central, and the DSHS Central Pharmacy Warehouse. They've got 60% of the vaccine and are some of the only places in Travis Co that have received more than one delivery. I don't think any of those top ten places have phase 1B clinics or online appointments set up for the public, but I could be wrong. Right now you have to have some relationship with one of those places or get lucky and find a few doses at a pharmacy. For most of us, we are going to have to wait for these big locations to get through whatever internal vaccinations they wish to do and then hope that they set up a public-facing vaccination effort. Travis Co is only giving 2000 shots per day. This is going to have to scale by about 5x if we want to get everyone over 16 vaccinated in six months.
  9. Boring boring C-SPAN showing protesters freely roaming around statutory hall...
  10. Well, 1 out of the 83 people in Loving Co, Texas now has a shot, and with that the vaccine has reached all 254 Texas counties. Texas has made an effort to get it to both rural and urban areas.
  11. Adler on KXAN, prior to New Year's: "We're asking people not to engage in social gatherings with people that are not in your household. I know it's hard, but for this New Year's Eve holiday, it is best to celebrate it with the people that are in your household"
  12. Only Pfizer pfolks should be getting second shots this week. The Moderna vax has not been out long enough. You can tell who has received Pfizer vs Moderna because the Moderna folks have all received quantities that are multiples of 100. The Pfizer pfolks have all received quantities that are NOT multiples of 100. Most of the smaller clinics have received Moderna because of the cold storage requirements for Pfizer.
  13. I am not sure about that... You would have to total up all of the amounts in the PDF to figure that out. You also have to know if they are taking the Pfizer vaccine quantities diverted to nursing homes out of the state total, or if that is included. The federal HHS has data showing allocations per state by first and second shot. That's probably your best resource to know how many "new people" are getting allocations each week. Texas is getting allocated about 160k-200k "first shot" Pfizer and about 160k "first shot" Moderna doses per week.
  14. I think "Week 4" is Mon Jan 4th -> Sun Jan 10th. I think here is how "weeks" work: Tuesday before the week, the feds issue an allocation for the states Friday or so before the week, the states tell the feds where to send the stuff Either on that day or on the following Monday, the state publishes the "Week X" PDF Monday of the week, stuff starts to arrive. Deliveries continue throughout the week. Either three weeks (Pfizer) or four weeks (Moderna) later, the feds ship the same quantities to the same location for second shots I could be off by a week, but I think we are now in week 4.
  15. It's like a statewide Easter egg hunt where the prize is you live...
  16. Texas week 4 sites are out: https://dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week4.pdf
  17. What is the nature of the paperwork and was it specific to the site, or the same paperwork for everyone no matter where you get it? It would be easier to print it at home and bring it with you, or at least bring your own clipboard and pen. Or use a phone.
  18. I looked up the federal allocation data to see what Texas is supposed to be getting. They allocate Pfizer and Moderna amounts each week and plan a second shot for either three or four weeks later. Right now, they have allocated enough vaccine for a little less than 7% of Texans, including this week's allocation. Here's a chart showing a blue line for first shot allocations and an orange line for second shots. This assumes that we'll get only the allocations we have been promised as of today. Obviously we'll get more in the following weeks, but you can start to see a trend. I think the number of vaccines received is trailing the allocation, and the shots-in-arms are trailing vaccines received. Hopefully we can resolve bottlenecks and get this stuff moving...
  19. I agree, it sounds like Trump is in the room with the mic and everyone else is on the phone. Either someone recorded it without his knowledge or Trump did this on purpose in the hope that the news cycle would turn and put pressure on the Georgia boys. I am guessing the latter.
  20. A look inside Arlington's vaccination center. They started off with fire/EMS vaccinations but moved to Phase 1B when the state announced the change. They have vaccinated 3000 folks so far.
  21. I'm not sure they have the vaccine to give. City of Austin / Travis Co is not prominent on the lists of places that have received vaccine in Travis County. Most of it is going to hospitals, with some smaller amounts going to pharmacies and clinics. CoA has received some for public safety but the large quantities are going elsewhere. UT could do it on their own. They have Dell Med next door to the Erwin Center and super cold storage to handle the Pfizer vax. Plenty of parking and bus routes. I remember adds and drops at the Erwin Center in the 1980s and they were pretty good at managing the flow through the building. If they can handle gameday they can handle a vax center. Austin Public Health has claimed the role of information distribution, but not vaccine distribution -- except for possibly underserved populations, but I don't see a plan for that. IMHO, they are not doing much. Travis County handles early voting sites pretty well. It seems logical to follow their lead and do something similar, but I don't think we'll get it.
  22. Not yet. Watch this page: https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/coronavirus/immunize/vaccine.aspx For the first three weeks, the URL has been consistent, something like: https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week3.pdf They published weeks 1 & 2 on a Friday, then skipped to Monday for the week after Christmas. Since Friday was a holiday, I would expect they will publish week 4 tomorrow if they follow the pattern.
  23. Probably not. Each state has their own definitions of who is in what phase. The national government sets standards but states can do what they want with their allocation. Are you in Texas? Obviously Phase 1B has either started in Texas or will soon start, depending on who you talk to. Phase 1B in Texas is bigger than 1B nationwide since it goes down to age 65 and includes ages 16-65 with certain heath conditions. I think 1B covers about 1/3 of all people in Texas,. Covering obesity added a big pile of folks to the list. Other states have a narrower 1B so they will transition to 1C sooner. Within Texas, the vaccine allocation has been pretty equitable across counties. The Pfizer vaccine requires cold storage that some counties don't have, but maybe they are getting more Moderna. You don't have to be vaccinated in your county or even your state, so hunt around if you really want it. I would guess that Phase 1B in Texas will be winding down .... sometime in March? I base this on Fauci and others saying that willing people will have access to a shot by June or July, so by March we should be at least 1/3 of the way to that goal.
  24. Travis Co crossed 1% with first shots today, Texas might hit that statewide tomorrow. El Paso not screwing around, over 2% with first shots already.
  25. We have designed a system where to get a vax you have to make lots and lots of phone calls to the people giving the vax. When this is over, a bunch of pharmacists are going to take their phones out back and beat the crap out of them with baseball bats.
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