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How S.D. Surged in Vaccination Inoculations

January 13, 2021 By Debbie Young

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State leaders apparently did not believe the media consensus that a rapid vaccine approval couldn’t happen. South Dakota, as James Freeman writes in the WSJ, was prepared for the possibility of success.

It’s important to also keep in mind that South Dakota’s population is a small fraction of, for example, New York’s. Furthermore, South Dakota is about 77,000 square miles vs. New York’s 54,000 square miles. Blizzards and bitter cold this time of year can also be an obstacle in S.D.

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports:

It was August when health officials from across the state decided it was time to start planning. Though still weeks away, the chatter in the medical world was promising: A new type of vaccine known as a Messenger RNA vaccine was showing huge promise in the world’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The vaccines were being developed in record time and would be available in several weeks. The state’s medical community wanted to be ready. ”We put a lot of thought and planning into this,” said Dr. David Basel, the vice president of clinical quality for Avera Medical Group.

The planning paid off. At a time when some states are stumbling to enact vaccination plans, South Dakota came out of the gate hard, following the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization for two mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna. At one point this week, more South Dakotans had received vaccinations as a percentage of the population than in any other state, according to tracking done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In reporting on S.D.’s vaccination success, the Argus Leader focused on S.D. Gov. Kristi Noem’s program for distribution. Much of it relied upon existing methods for delivering care.

The health systems already had established courier services for delivering medicines from their main hospitals to smaller facilities. Vaccines could piggyback along within that system.

That’s different than how other states have handled the roll-out, Basel said. For example, in Minnesota, vaccines aren’t going directly from the state to hospitals, but through a more complex distribution system that involves more layers. The system for distribution in South Dakota is “orders of magnitude less complicated.”

“We’re able to cut through the red tape and just do it,” Basel said.

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Mr. Freeman notes how mind-boggling has been to watch politicians like Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) delay needed COVID vaccinations with clumsy, needless bureaucracy.

For any citizens crying out that there has to be a better way, the good news is that a number of states have been moving quickly to get shots into arms. Recently this column noted the speed of vaccinations in West Virginia. Fortunately the Mountain State is not the only success story.

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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
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