I live in Utah and remote work for a team predominantly in Pittsburgh. Last week, the Governor threw open the sluice gates and announced general availability s

I live in Utah and remote work for a team predominantly in Pittsburgh. Last week, the Governor threw open the sluice gates and announced general availability starting today, so I grabbed a vaccine appointment faster than you can say "RTX 3060 at MSRP". I just got my shot today... so I naturally wondered if I should start obsessively refreshing the Pennsylvania vaccine page like I had been the Utah one. I'm already bugging friends and family in Utah whenever appointments are open, so I figured I'd Slack ping the entire company once Pennsylvania general availability is announced. I go and check... and that state's still in Phase 1A. Both states have similar per-capita vaccination rates - it's not like Pennsylvania is actually behind on shots, since the vaccine distribution in the US is based on state population. In Utah, we got 75% of 65+ before we opened it up to 50+ and people with pre-existing conditions; and about half of 50+ before today when we went to general availability. I say that the priority system did it's job: cases are down and the most vulnerable (old people) are protected. Every state should be moving to either general availability if they're at the same benchmarks, or at the very least an "anyone who can't work remote" standard (which would exclude my entire team, but w/e). (The ideal vaccination system would be to specifically target superspreaders. If we could do that, then we could achieve herd immunity at really low vaccination rates. However, that's still speculative since there is no diagnostic criterion for that and "just forcibly vaccinate anyone who violated a mask order" probably isn't a great proxy for superspreading.)