Current Events > Biden administration unaware of location of 20M COVID-19 vaccine doses

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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/30/biden-covid-vaccine-states-463953

Joe Biden promised hed 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, Bidens 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.

Its the Mike Tyson quote: Everybodys got a plan until they get punched in the mouth, said one person with knowledge of the vaccine effort whos not authorized to discuss the work. They are planning. They are competent. Its just the weight of everything when you sit down in that chair. Its heavy. Biden officials leading the coronavirus response launched a series of regular briefings this week to keep the public informed on the state of the pandemic and government efforts to contain it and rush vaccines out to as many Americans as possible. But the briefings were short on details. And behind the scenes, officials say, the team was still struggling to get a handle on basic information, liaise with the career government workers who have been running the response and build out a long-term strategy for bringing and then keeping the virus under control.

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oh gee i wonder why the situation is so difficult for the incoming administration to transition into

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Doom_Art posted...

oh gee i wonder why the situation is so difficult for the incoming administration to transition into

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SMH Biden, why didn't he take the past 4 years to prepare instead of taking every effort to make it harder?

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Reminds me of that article about a start up by some college students that ended up having non medically trained people administering the vaccines, them losing all their records on racial statistics for recipients which was what they got permission to go in with was based on, them lying and saying people who showed up weren't on the list, then the founder of it taking some vaccines home and even administering one to his girlfriend.

It's chaotic and only got this bad because Trump didn't just do nothing, he'd destroyed whatever plans previous administrations had in place.

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