State s vaccine appointment effort for Twin Cities schools leads to fiasco
8,720 doses are for metro area educators this week.
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Minnesota s plan to vaccinate as many teachers as supply would allow this week led to a farcical situation that resulted in some school districts missing out completely.
On Monday, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) gave every school district and charter school an allotment for a recommended number of staff they should invite to register for an appointment to get a COVID-19 vaccine this week.
On Tuesday, superintendents were instructed to wait until 6 p.m. to send an appointment registration link by email, supposedly making it a fair playing field for prioritized staff who would then need to rush to the link, register and hope to get one of the 8,720 appointments available for teachers at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul starting Thursday.
● 10 Jan 2021
Sections of this post were co-authored by Cornelia Scheitz.
Noah Leidinger created a German translation.
Last updated on February 7, 2021.
Bert Hubert’s excellent and widely shared article about Reverse Engineering the source code of the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine is all it took to turn hundreds of software engineers and other Silicon Valley types into armchair vaccine experts overnight! Jokes aside, the article explains the 4284 base pair long mRNA inside the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those who are more familiar with software than molecular biology.
Bert’s article is primarily about the biology of the vaccine, how it relates to the virus and how it works in the human body, but there’s this one sentence about vaccine production: