> n WA state, only one third of the doses delivered have been administered. Good grief! Norway is slower than neighbouring countries because we have a decentr

> n WA state, only one third of the doses delivered have been administered. Good grief! Norway is slower than neighbouring countries because we have a decentralised health system because we have such a scattered population and the health service has decided to use the existing infrastructure rather than try to create a new more centralised system on the fly. In addition a substantial fraction of the doses are held back to ensure that all those who have had one dose will get the second within a reasonable time. The average is about half of the distributed doses have been administered But pretty much all European health systems are performing faster than your example and they are pretty much all using the existing public health system. At least here, Norway, there seems to be no evidence that involving private actors would do any better. In the UK they have vaccinated (first dose) 8.5% of the population just using the NHS. The US doesn't seem that far behind on average with 5.7%. Norway is 1.4% And also surely adding more organizations to the existing system risks running into a version of Brook's law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.