Biden Says Trump 'Did Not Do His Job' To Prepare For COVID-19 Vaccination Blitz
Source: Huffington Post
02/12/2021 12:21 am ET
“He didn’t order enough vaccines. He didn’t mobilize enough people to administer the shots. He didn’t set up federal vaccine centers.”
By Nick Visser
President Joe Biden lambasted his predecessor, Donald Trump, for failing to do an adequate job preparing the country for a vaccination blitz amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The president made the remarks at a news conference at the National Institutes of Health as his administration announced it had secured hundreds of millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses, enough to inoculate the vast majority of Americans by the end of the summer. The U.S. now has contracts for 600 million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, enough for 300 million of the country’s 330 million residents.
Biden praised scientists for developing a slate of vaccines in record time, two of which, made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, have received emergency use approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But the president said it was “no secret that the vaccination program was in much worse shape than my team and I anticipated.”
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“While scientists did their job in discovering vaccines in record time, my predecessor — I’ll be very blunt about it — did not do his job in getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans,” Biden said. “He didn’t order enough vaccines. He didn’t mobilize enough people to administer the shots. He didn’t set up federal vaccine centers where eligible people could go and get their shots.”
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