news.yahoo.com: Rock concerts and COVID vaccine clinics aren’t all that different, if you ask Terry Sapp.
The man running the show at Baltimore County’s vaccine sites has spent decades training and coordinating emergency preparedness at the state and local levels. But he credits much of his skill to his years on tour with Twisted Sister across 20 countries from 2004 to 2016, working his way from blogger to production assistant, and as a stage manager for local 1980s cover band The Reagan Years.
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The vaccine distribution effort has frankly been quite terrible. My dad who is 65 and an essential worker has managed to get his first dose but in California, they suddenly do not have enough and he hasn't been able to get his second. The planning and organization behind both the manufacturing of vaccines and distribution were awful. I often think what if a theater person had been involved in this process. I think stage managers, production managers, and technical directors have the perfect skill set to organize the vaccine distribution effort. It was interesting to read this article and hear about the parallels between being a stage manager for a band and running Baltimore counties huge vaccine center. I really hope that the coordination, planning, and execution of vaccine distribution improve greatly in the coming weeks, especially as the Johnson and Johnson vaccine has been approved meaning that supply will no longer be an issue.
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