President Biden’s chief of staff has insisted that the Trump administration’s plan to deploy the coronavirus vaccine does not exist, after it emerged that Dr. Anthony Fauci CNN’s much-criticized report that the Biden government is “starting all over again” with its vaccine distribution plan completely undermined.
“I think these two statements actually reconcile more than you would think. I think what Dr. Fauci’s ruling is, of course, is a year of amazing scientific breakthrough and discovery that created this vaccine in record time,” Ron said. Klain, Chief of Staff of the White House, Ron Klain. told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “But the process of distributing the vaccine, especially outside nursing homes and hospitals in the community, did not really exist when we entered the White House.”
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“The way people are being vaccinated is chaotic,” Klain continued. “It’s very limited. We’ve seen this factor all over the country where millions of doses have been distributed. About half of it has been distributed. So it’s the difficult process of getting the vaccine into arms. This is where we’re behind. a country and that is where we in the Biden government are focusing on increasing it. ‘
Klain added that “the fundamental difference between the Biden approach and the Trump approach is that we are going to take responsibility with the federal government.”
“We’re going to own this problem,” he said. “We are going to work closely with the states. They are the most important partners to do that. But we are also going to do the work ourselves. We are going to set up these federal vaccination centers to make sure that in states that do not have enough vaccination sites, we fill the gaps. ‘
Rev. Tina Findley (L) prepares to receive her shot while Pastor Timothy Findley Jr. (R) received his Moderna vaccine at the Louisville Urban League on January 20, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Jon Cherry / Getty Images)
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Klain also stresses the goal of the new administration to get 100 million coronavirus vaccines in the first 100 days from Biden.
More than 41 million doses of coronavirus vaccine have been distributed and more than 20 million have been administered since Saturday, according to the CDC’s vaccine detection.
Biden’s new CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, also exploded the Trump administration during an appearance on ‘Fox News Sunday’.
“I would say that one of the biggest problems at the moment is that I can not tell you how much vaccine we have, and if I can not tell you, I can not tell the governors and I can. “If they do not know how much vaccine they are getting, they can not only plan this week but also next week and the week after that.”
“The fact that we do not know today, five days in this administration and weeks in planning, how much vaccine we have, gives you a sense of the challenges we have left behind,” she continued.
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CNN on Thursday quoted anonymous Biden officials as saying that ‘[t]here there is nothing for us to rework, “that they” will have to build everything from scratch, “and that the new administration will have to start from” square “.
“We are certainly not starting from scratch because there are activities going on in the distribution,” Fauci said in response to the report during the White House press briefing.
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Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, accepted a role as Biden’s chief medical adviser before the inauguration.
Fox A.’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.