U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about his plan to beat COVID-19 in Wilmington, Delaware, October 23, 2020. Kevin Lamarque, Reuters
Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort.
Joe Biden promised he’d bring in a competent, tested team to run the pandemic response, set ambitious vaccination targets and impose strict public health guidelines.
His team arrived at the White House with a 200-page response plan ready to roll out. But instead, they have spent much of the last week trying to wrap their hands around the mushrooming crisis — a process officials acknowledge has been humbling, and triggered a concerted effort to temper expectations about how quickly they might get the nation back to normal.
After a week on the job, Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort. They're searching for new ways to boost production of a vaccine stockpile that they've discovered is mostly empty. And they're nervously eyeing a series of new Covid-19 strains that threaten to derail the response.
Read more ....
WNU Editor: 3,600 Americans died yesterday from the Covid-19 pandemic. The priority is to grab as much vaccine as possible, and to jab it into as many vulnerable and essential people as possible. Spending time trying to figure out what the states did with 20,000,000 doses (which I am sure was administered as quickly as possible by the medical community) is a luxury that no one can afford right now. And as to the rest of the Biden plan. Is anyone surprised that their 200 page plan of action booklet is not working as planned? This pandemic is unprecedented for the modern era. Everyone is learning on the go on what needs to be done. The Biden team included.
0 Response to "Is The Biden Administration Progressing In Curtailing The Covid-19 Pandemic?"
Post a Comment