States are warning they’re running out of the vaccine, with little sense of when more will arrive.
As President Joe Biden spent his first full day in office issuing executive actions aimed at containing the coronavirus, his administration scrambled to get a handle on a key unanswered question: How much vaccine is actually available?
Conflicting accounts of supply totals have bedeviled federal and state health officials, complicating the new administration’s sweeping pandemic response plan and casting fresh doubts on how long it will take Biden to bring the virus under control.
Just about half of the nearly 38 million Covid-19 shots distributed by the federal government have been administered to date, according to Centers for Disease Control data. That indicates there’s a glut of unused doses around the country.
But states are warning they’re running out of the vaccine, with little sense of when more will arrive.
Federal officials are trying to sort out where the reality lies – an urgent effort that comes against the backdrop of Biden’s promise to deliver 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office.
“That is something that we need to really take a close look at,” said Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser. “If it is the case, particularly the thing that would be most disturbing is vaccine laying around.”
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As President Biden spent his first full day in office issuing executive actions aimed at containing the coronavirus, his administration scrambled to get a handle on a key unanswered question: How much vaccine is actually available?https://t.co/lENoA2TdAF
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President Biden will be spending much of his term in office fixing the things Trump either botched or just simply neglected. Had Trump worked with the states and the manufacturers to determine how much vaccine was needed and set up a comprehensive plan for distribution, we would not have shortages in some places and overabundance in others.
I mentioned this before — PA had set up phased distribution putting frontline medical people and those in long-term care first. followed by the elderly, those with health issues and essential personnel in varying groups, then the general population. Now the state is saying we old and sick people can get our shots now if we want, except there isn’t any vaccine to give. It’s just been a botched rollout simply because we had no leadership at the top in Washington. Hopefully now with real leadership, the vaccines will be distributed as they should be and maybe we can finally put an end to this pandemic that should have been over months ago.
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