Vaccine supply is a headache for Biden officials | The State
Officials of the Joe Biden government pointed out this Sunday the supply of the vaccine as one of the challenges that they will have to overcome as soon as possible to reach the goal of 100 million doses administered in the first 100 days of the Democratic leader’s government.
He White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, drew attention to the absence of a dose distribution plan by the past Donald Trump Administration.
“The process for distributing the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals, in the community as a whole, didn’t really exist when we got to the White House“, The official warned in an interview with the program” Meet the Press “, of the chain NBC News.
Klain said that the way people get vaccinated is “chaotic and very limited” and acknowledged that getting the doses to Americans “is the difficult process.”
“That is where we are behind as a country. That’s where we focus on the Biden Administration to increase that, ”added Klain.
Despite admitting that “there are many bottlenecks, as in all complex processes,” he pointed out that “the fundamental difference” between the Biden government and Trump’s is that they will “own” the problem and will work in collaboration with the states.
“We are going to do the work ourselves. We are going to establish these federal vaccination centers to make sure that in states that don’t have enough vaccination sites, we fill in those gaps, “he added.
Also the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Rochelle Walensky pointed to the supply of the vaccine as “the most limiting restriction from the beginning.”
“We do not have as many doses as we would like now for states like New York or other states that claim to have run out of vaccines,” he told Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday” program, and considered this situation a “pressure point” at this time.
Walensky was confident that production has “increased dramatically” by the end of March and that they have more supply than they do now.
On the goal of 100 million people vaccinated in the first 100 days of the Biden Administration, the US surgeon general (Head of public health in the Government), Vivek Murthy, pointed out that it is “a floor, not a ceiling.”
“It is also an objective – he explained in the space” ThisWeek “, of the ABC News chain – that reflects the realities we face, what could go well, but also what could go wrong.”
In that sense, he pointed out that “vaccinating as many Americans as possible” will require “a lot of work.”
“Working dispelling misinformation, working on supply, increasing distribution channels,” concluded Murthy, for whom they should be established “distribution channels”, such as mobile units or vaccination centers that reach citizens who are more difficult to access or who do not have medical care.
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