States skeptical of Biden's Covid-19 vaccine plan as they await the missing details

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States skeptical of Biden's Covid-19 vaccine plan as they await the missing details | CNN Politics

State officials are skeptical that President-elect Joe Biden can meet his goal of 100 million coronavirus shots in his first 100 days, with a week to go before his start date and a slew of unanswered questions still swirling around his plan.

www.cnn.com

State officials are skeptical that President-elect Joe Biden can meet his goal of 100 million coronavirus shots in his first 100 days, with a week to go before his start date and a slew of unanswered questions still swirling around his plan.
Multiple state officials and sources familiar with the Biden transition team's outreach told CNN in recent interviews that they are unclear on major details of the Biden team's plans -- including those for mass vaccination sites, vaccine supply issues and funding for local governments

100 million shots in 100 days is not agressive; it's pathetically slow. We need to be hitting 500 million shots in around 250 days to have herd immunity by this fall. Let's hope these people get on board.

 

[ttwtt78640]

Changing the priority scheme ‘guidelines’ on a regular basis is a big part of the problem and thus is in no way part of the solution. As Trump was prone to say: We’ll just have to see what happens.

 

[Mr Person]

It's amazing how easy to criticize an incoming administration's potential future failures when the existing administration has been fighting orderly transition.

 

[Noodlegawd]

100 million shots in 100 days is not agressive; it's pathetically slow. We need to be hitting 500 million shots in around 250 days to have herd immunity by this fall. Let's hope these people get on board.

It's also barely higher than the rate at which shots are being given now, and maybe not even as high as the daily rate will be by the time he takes office. So it's a non-promise.

 

[Metric Mouse]

It's also barely higher than the rate at which shots are being given now, and maybe not even as high as the daily rate will be by the time he takes office. So it's a non-promise.

Pretty much. If Biden just continues the policies and actions of the Trump administration, he's going to be a pretty big disappointment to much of the country.

 

[noonereal]

100 million shots in 100 days is not agressive; it's pathetically slow.

this is what I have been explaining to family and friends

 

[Metric Mouse]

It's amazing how easy to criticize an incoming administration's potential future failures when the existing administration has been fighting orderly transition.

When the incoming administration's lofty goal is the outgoing bafoons ending place, it is pretty easy to criticize.

 

[holbritter]

States skeptical of Biden's Covid-19 vaccine plan as they await the missing details | CNN Politics

State officials are skeptical that President-elect Joe Biden can meet his goal of 100 million coronavirus shots in his first 100 days, with a week to go before his start date and a slew of unanswered questions still swirling around his plan.

www.cnn.com

100 million shots in 100 days is not agressive; it's pathetically slow. We need to be hitting 500 million shots in around 250 days to have herd immunity by this fall. Let's hope these people get on board.

Not going to happen. Especially now that we learn the Trump Administration lied about having a stockpile reserve of vaccine. Guess what....no more reserve.

Despite Trump administration promise, government has no more 'reserve' 2nd vaccine doses

Hopes of a surge in Covid-19 vaccine shipments under a new policy to release second doses held in reserve appear to be evaporating -- with the revelation that those doses have already been distributed, contrary to recent indications by the Trump administration.

www.cnn.com

 

[lemmiwinx]

Biden's vaccine plan is the same as Trump's. Do whatever a consensus of medical scientists say we ought to do. Duh!

 

[Metric Mouse]

Not going to happen. Especially now that we learn the Trump Administration lied about having a stockpile reserve of vaccine. Guess what....no more reserve.

Despite Trump administration promise, government has no more 'reserve' 2nd vaccine doses

Hopes of a surge in Covid-19 vaccine shipments under a new policy to release second doses held in reserve appear to be evaporating -- with the revelation that those doses have already been distributed, contrary to recent indications by the Trump administration.

www.cnn.com

I hope that Biden outperforms even his mediocre goals. It'll be awful if he just continues the Trump plan, though I can see how he might find that attractive.

 

[Bullseye]

It's amazing how easy to criticize an incoming administration's potential future failures when the existing administration has been fighting orderly transition.

Best you can do is “yeah, but Trump. . .”?

 

[Bullseye]

States skeptical of Biden's Covid-19 vaccine plan as they await the missing details | CNN Politics

State officials are skeptical that President-elect Joe Biden can meet his goal of 100 million coronavirus shots in his first 100 days, with a week to go before his start date and a slew of unanswered questions still swirling around his plan.

www.cnn.com

100 million shots in 100 days is not agressive; it's pathetically slow. We need to be hitting 500 million shots in around 250 days to have herd immunity by this fall. Let's hope these people get on board.

And you base this on . . .?

 

[Metric Mouse]

And you base this on . . .?

100 million doses in 100 days is the current vaccination rate, when supplies and production are the lowest they will ever be, distribution is only just beginning to be figured out and Trump is running things. If Biden can't do better, shame on him. At the rate he is stating, it will take 2 years to vaccinate the United States.

2.

Years.

 

[Bullseye]

100 million doses in 100 days is the current vaccination rate, when supplies and production are the lowest they will ever be, distribution is only just beginning to be figured out and Trump is running things. If Biden can't do better, shame on him. At the rate he is stating, it will take 2 years to vaccinate the United States.

2.

Years.

100 million in 100 days, aka a million a day, gets us 365 million in one year.

 

[iguanaman]

States skeptical of Biden's Covid-19 vaccine plan as they await the missing details | CNN Politics

State officials are skeptical that President-elect Joe Biden can meet his goal of 100 million coronavirus shots in his first 100 days, with a week to go before his start date and a slew of unanswered questions still swirling around his plan.

www.cnn.com

100 million shots in 100 days is not agressive; it's pathetically slow. We need to be hitting 500 million shots in around 250 days to have herd immunity by this fall. Let's hope these people get on board.

It is purely a vaccine supply problem that needs to be fixed. Biden will use the defense production act to get production up. It has now come to light that there was never any holdback for 2nd doses and there are no extra vaccines to be "released".

There is no “reserve stockpile” of Covid-19 vaccine doses left to release, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt Friday.
Though the Trump administration announced this week that it would release all available Covid-19 vaccine doses instead of holding second doses in reserve, a senior administration official told CNN Friday that many of those reserves were already released last year.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news...s-01-15-21/h_e4b5a49a394ff63398d53108c40dbeeb

 

[Noodlegawd]

100 million in 100 days, aka a million a day, gets us 365 million in one year.

365 million doses, which is less than 200 million fully vaccinated.

 

[Bullseye]

365 million doses, which is less than 200 million fully vaccinated.

Yeah, 35 extra days.

 

[Noodlegawd]

Yeah, 35 extra days.

Huh? There are 330 million people in this country, and a year is far too long to get 60% of them vaccinated.

 

[Metric Mouse]

100 million in 100 days, aka a million a day, gets us 365 million in one year.

Yep. And we need 700 million doses....

 

[Metric Mouse]

It is purely a vaccine supply problem that needs to be fixed. Biden will use the defense production act to get production up. It has now come to light that there was never any holdback for 2nd doses and there are no extra vaccines to be "released".

There is no “reserve stockpile” of Covid-19 vaccine doses left to release, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt Friday.
Though the Trump administration announced this week that it would release all available Covid-19 vaccine doses instead of holding second doses in reserve, a senior administration official told CNN Friday that many of those reserves were already released last year.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news...s-01-15-21/h_e4b5a49a394ff63398d53108c40dbeeb

What supply problem? Almost 60% of all the doses shipped to the states are unused. There's literally 3x as much vaccine as can be used; supply is the last problem at the moment.

 

[iguanaman]

What supply problem? Almost 60% of all the doses shipped to the states are unused. There's literally 3x as much vaccine as can be used; supply is the last problem at the moment.

Why do you think Biden wants to hire 100,000 new Covid workers to help administer the vaccine? There is already too much stress on our hospital workers treating the suck from the virus. They can't do both. There is also a supply problem like I said.

States, begging for more vaccines, have been told the stock is empty
At least nine state governors, desperate to get more shots into the arms of their citizens, also sent a letter to Washington last week, saying "our states and residents need more vaccines now."
"According to publicly reported information, the federal government currently has upwards of 50% of currently produced vaccines held back by the administration for reasons unknown," the letter said, citing media reports.
But state and federal officials who've actually been briefed on vaccine dose distribution plans now tell the Washington Post that there is no such surplus, and that most vaccine allocations to states next week will be flat.
https://www.businessinsider.com/no-extra-covid-19-vaccine-doses-left-to-release-us-2021-1

 

[CaughtInThe]

God. I've so glad we're debating this instead of things like "hoax" and "stolen election".


Extremely refreshing.

 

[Metric Mouse]

Why do you think Biden wants to hire 100,000 new Covid workers to help administer the vaccine? There is already too much stress on our hospital workers treating the suck from the virus. They can't do both. There is also a supply problem like I said.

States, begging for more vaccines, have been told the stock is empty
At least nine state governors, desperate to get more shots into the arms of their citizens, also sent a letter to Washington last week, saying "our states and residents need more vaccines now."
"According to publicly reported information, the federal government currently has upwards of 50% of currently produced vaccines held back by the administration for reasons unknown," the letter said, citing media reports.
But state and federal officials who've actually been briefed on vaccine dose distribution plans now tell the Washington Post that there is no such surplus, and that most vaccine allocations to states next week will be flat.
https://www.businessinsider.com/no-extra-covid-19-vaccine-doses-left-to-release-us-2021-1

Nice letter. California has injected just 30% of the doses it has been shipped. And they want more? Oregon has handed out less than 45% of their doses? Their letter is a joke, and only highlights the failures of those states. Supply is not an issue in any of those states. And as unfortunate as it is that Pfizer has not kept up its production promises, in time they should be meeting their production and shipping targets; until then all vaccine that is produced is being shipped.

 

[dixon01767]

Why do you think Biden wants to hire 100,000 new Covid workers to help administer the vaccine? There is already too much stress on our hospital workers treating the suck from the virus. They can't do both. There is also a supply problem like I said.

Watching news video of Biden in that sincere serious tone-
"You have my word: We will manage the hell out of this operation"

Says he will use the defense production act to increase production of vaccines. The act is already being used. Says 100 doses in first 100 days. I suspect production of vaccines has already been increased to an unprecedented level, don't know how much more they can be quickly increased. All the easier avenues of increase have already been taxed. Most of what could conceivably been done in the first 100 days to increase production, wont be producing results until after the first 100 days. But no worries all we need is Federal government to "manage the hell out of this". As if private industry, very interested and motivated to increase production, hasn't yet supplied enough "manage"ment to the situation. Or as if State governments administrating vaccinations aren't capable of applying the needed "manage"ment, but Biden administration "manage(ing) the hell out of this" will magically do the trick.

 

[Noodlegawd]

Why do you think Biden wants to hire 100,000 new Covid workers to help administer the vaccine? There is already too much stress on our hospital workers treating the suck from the virus. They can't do both. There is also a supply problem like I said.

States, begging for more vaccines, have been told the stock is empty
At least nine state governors, desperate to get more shots into the arms of their citizens, also sent a letter to Washington last week, saying "our states and residents need more vaccines now."
"According to publicly reported information, the federal government currently has upwards of 50% of currently produced vaccines held back by the administration for reasons unknown," the letter said, citing media reports.
But state and federal officials who've actually been briefed on vaccine dose distribution plans now tell the Washington Post that there is no such surplus, and that most vaccine allocations to states next week will be flat.
https://www.businessinsider.com/no-extra-covid-19-vaccine-doses-left-to-release-us-2021-1

California signed that letter. They have administered less than a third of the vaccines received. I couldn't make up worse bullshit if I tried.