According to a Politico report, the Biden government is struggling to keep its promise to get its hands on the COVID-19 pandemic strong and has even lost as many as 20 million vaccine doses sent to the states.
The report notes that Biden officials are learning that a seamless, perfect pandemic response is easier to promise than to deliver, noting that the government has largely thwarted the coronavirus response plan with a bad wave , as they discover that the challenges they face in controlling the pandemic may have been more serious than they expected.
One administration official even said, “This is Mike Tyson’s quote: ‘Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth. ‘
The report also indicates that the administration of Biden cannot detect approximately 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine sent to the states, and is concerned that ‘the important stock is stored in warehouses, sitting idle in freezers or elsewhere in the complex distribution pipeline that stretches from the administration to individual states. “
Biden administration officials blamed the Trump administration, which they say did not track down what happened to the vaccines after they were sent to the states.
The report also notes that government officials have discovered that the available vaccine supply is ‘mostly empty’, and that they are struggling to find ways to increase production to meet even the government’s initial target of 100 million vaccination doses. to reach the first 100. days, which have been widely criticized as too modest and not even an improvement on the delivery rate during the last days of the Trump administration.
The shortage of vaccine supply is said to have caught the Biden government by surprise, and according to the Politico report, the shortage could only be alleviated until late in the summer, meaning the government’s plans to help America return to normal activities , may be much more stimulated than previously anticipated.