“The CDC and federal partners are working closely with the jurisdictions, as well as manufacturing and shipping partners, to assess weather conditions and help reduce potential delays and cancellations,” Psaki said at a White House briefing.
Psaki said the White House Covid-19 Response Team is constantly communicating with local officials and that White House officials have had many one-time calls, emails and meetings with states, tribes, territories and key partners about the impact. of the storm over vaccination efforts.
“We are also working with our partners to sharpen the scheduled deliveries, where possible, and increase the shipment of the cargo after the end of the week to the weekend. We are in talks about extended hours and additional appointments to shoot. try to reschedule given the storm, ‘Psaki said.
Psaki said the aim is to ensure that access to vaccines is as stable and equitable as possible.
The winter storm and the lingering cold continued to affect the power generation of the system, and the next few days may require rotating interruptions, the company said.
“To ensure that the people of Texas, the people of the surrounding states, have the necessary resources, is something he has been collecting regularly during meetings over the past few days,” Psaki said.
The president instructed his team to ‘make quick decisions and respond to the specific needs of the states as they arise during this difficult time’.
The Biden government has approved federal emergency declarations for Texas and Oklahoma, Homeland Security Council and Deputy National Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall said in the White House on Thursday. She said the Federal Emergency Management Agency had also processed a federal request statement from John Bel Edwards, a Democrat.
Sherwood-Randall said FEMA “provides generators to support water treatment plants and hospitals and nursing homes in Texas” and also “provides blankets and meals and other supplies as requested by the Texas governor.”
“The extreme weather conditions we are experiencing this week in the far south and now in the eastern United States show once again that climate change is real and that it is happening now and that we are not adequately prepared for it,” Sherwood Randall said.