No stockpile? Governors hit Washington as vaccine chokepoints pile up

[Wicked Blue]

NBC News
By David Ingram

If you ask New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy why Covid-19 vaccinations are happening so slowly, he’ll say the answer is simple.

“The constraint is 100 percent right now supply from the feds,” Murphy, a Democrat, told a local TV station Thursday.

Ask the feds, and they’ll say they’ve distributed far more doses than the states have used, leaving vaccines on the shelf.

“Some states’ heavy-handed micromanagement of this process has stood in the way of vaccines reaching a broader swath of the vulnerable population more quickly,” Alex Azar, the U.S. secretary of health and human services, said at a Tuesday briefing, without singling out particular states.

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One month into a vaccine rollout that has fallen short of everyone’s expectations, the blame-shifting over who’s at fault for the bottlenecks is multiplying and threatening to disrupt vaccinations even further. And that is frustrating public health experts who say that the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccination team seems to be sleep-walking through its final days.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-stockpile-governors-hit-washington-vaccine-chokepoints-pile-n1254442

I have an awful feeling that the media is downplaying this to avoid mass panic - WB

[Bobstandard]

1. What do you bet: "some is just lost!"

I’m betting that somewhere down the line we find that substantial stocks of the vaccine “disappeared” and found their way to the illicit marketplace. How else are the rich folk going to get their vaccine? They can’t be expected to wait in long lines, or hassle with making appointments. They need for their “concierge medical services” providers to make it easy. Money, after all, is no object.

[Wicked Blue]

3. Oh, I agree with you completely

This was done on purpose.

These scum would sell their own mothers if there was a profit in it.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I'm wondering how many of us are actually going to get the vaccine anytime soon.

Federal COVID-19 vaccine reserve is now empty, sparking angry response

A new report says that while the Trump administration announced it was releasing a stockpile of COVID-19 vaccine initially held for second shots to accelerate lagging vaccination efforts nationwide, no such reserve existed.

On Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Alex Azar said the administration would no longer be holding back the second of two doses and recommended states open vaccination eligibility to everyone age 65 and older, and adults with comorbidities that put them at risk of severe illness. The Trump administration had previously been stockpiling half of available doses to ensure those who received the first jab would have access to the required second dose several weeks later.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/534524-federal-covid-19-vaccine-reserve-is-now-empty%3famp

How long will it take Biden's administration to sort out this mess that Trump has left him.

[Wicked Blue]

4. Trump should be arrested at 12:01 pm on January 20

on a whole slew of criminal charges.