Michigan's Plea for More Vaccines Is Rejected by Biden Team

[Klaralven]

The Biden administration on Monday put Michigan’s Democratic governor on notice that her plea for more vaccine to be sent to the state isn’t going to happen, despite a surging Covid-19 outbreak there.

Shutdowns are needed to control the spike in cases, not more vaccine, said Rochelle Walensky, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a Monday news briefing. Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a separate briefing that the administration is “not in a place, nor will we be, where we take supply from one state to give them to another”

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has urged the federal government to increase the amount of vaccine sent to Michigan, which has the highest rate of new infections in the U.S. Over the weekend, the state’s total number of Covid cases were pushed to more than 738,000 since the start of the pandemic.
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Instead, the CDC director said the state needed “to shut things down” to battle the surge, adding that it can take as long as six weeks for vaccines to take effect, a delay that will have no immediate effect on the virus’s surge.

“If we tried to vaccinate our way out of what’s happening in Michigan we would be disappointed it took so long for the vaccine to work to actually have the impact,” Walensky said in a news briefing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-12/michigan-s-plea-for-more-vaccine-gets-biden-team-cold-shoulder

[stillcool]

1. Between a rock and a hard place...

the state government fights any effort to control the virus, as do the people. Nothing she can do, but take the blame.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. When in Rome, do as the Romans do...

... and when dealing with the more contagious and deadly UK variant, do as the UK did.

They shut down in January, doing far better now.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/01/05/uk-us-variant-shutdown

[Shermann]

3. You don't fight critical localized outbreaks with vaccines, I'm with Biden on this nt

[nakocal]

4. Republicans in Michigan are to blame for the outbreak

They stripped the governor of the emergency powers to do what was needed to combat COVID. And now they blame her for the surge. And idiots will believe that she is to blame.

[bluestarone]

5. THIS

THEY own it! They need to be VOTED OUT! THAT is the long term answer

[roamer65]

6. Complete lockdown for all unvaccinated Michiganders.

To be out and doing “like normal” things, Michiganders should be two weeks after the Moderna/Pfizer shots or one month after the J&J.

It won’t happen but it would solve the outbreak problem.

[Talitha]

7. I'm with Biden... it's called 'tough love'.

Sadly, Michigan and other states have some ignorant people who need to realize that THEY are the cause of this outbreak. They need to pull their heads out of their asses and do what's right for the good of the general public.

Damn, I wish it were legal to dart the fuckers so we can all be safe.

[GregariousGroundhog]

8. I wonder if Whitmer could sidestep Michigan's legislature via a CDC issued a quarantine order?

I'm envisioning a scenario where Governor Whitmer asks Biden to have the CDC issue a quarantine order. She may not be able to issue her own emergency decree, but is there anything that prevents her from calling up Michigan's national guard to enforce a CDC's order?

A 14 day lockdown would do Michigan a lot of good.

[LisaL]

9. Unfortunately, with production issues of J&J vaccine in US,

there is very little J&J vaccine going to all the states right now.