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Biden dresses down his Covid team over plans to speed vaccinations

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President-elect Joe Biden has grown frustrated with the team in charge of plotting his coronavirus response, amid rising concerns that his administration will fall short of its promise of 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days, according to people familiar with the conversations.​
The tensions have surfaced as Biden's advisers plan a dramatic scale-up of vaccinations starting Jan. 20, when the incoming team inherits a troubled Trump administration vaccine rollout that has fallen well short of its initial targets.​
In interviews, multiple senior transition officials defended [Covid coordinator] Zients and stressed the enormity of the challenge, noting that the Trump administration has refused to share key information for weeks.
Transition officials described encountering a litany of challenges and a lack of long-term planning by the Trump administration, putting them in a hole so deep it could take weeks to get the vaccination campaign on track. They conceded that the team is still working to solve some of the most pressing issues.​
"They're inheriting a mess," said Andy Slavitt, a former Obama administration acting Medicare and Medicaid chief. "I think they're uncovering how bad it is."​

Of course it's a mess. It's Trump's. And the Biden team didn't get key information for weeks because Trump wouldn't accept the results of the election. My god.
 
The federal government has distributed 25 million doses in the first 29 days since the Pfizer vaccine was first rolled out. Not exactly what they initially projected, but close to Biden's 1 million/day rate.

It's the states, especially cluster Fs like CA, that apparently didn't do squat to prepare for it, except perhaps to preload excuses.

But even with all that, the US is doing better than just about every other industrialized nation.
 
Why is Biden setting such a low target rate for vaccinations... It's unconscionable.
 
Looks like the Trump admin is already taking Biden's lead. Thank goodness competence is about to arrive in D.C.

Operation Warp Speed plans to announce changes to the vaccine rollout on Tuesday. Notably, the Trump administration will make more doses of the coronavirus vaccine available immediately, rather than hold them back for second doses. The move comes just days after President-elect Joe Biden announced plans to release nearly all of the supply.
 
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Maybe he's taking into account the resistance of dead-ender Republicans who think inoculations (and wearing masks) are a commie plot?
Maybe he knows how slow New York and California are at getting their populations vaccinated, so he's hedging his bets.

But this is not the situation to under promise. Setting a timeline of two years to vaccinate the United States is bs; if Biden can't do better than the current Trump timeline, he needs to step aside and put someone in charge who can.
 
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