Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday slammed White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s ‘completely insignificant’ implication that the COVID-19 distribution effort for the vaccine was lagging behind.
Florida has become the first state in the U.S. to vaccinate one million senior citizens, but Psaki quickly turned down the milestone and said in a press release to reporters on Tuesday that ‘they only distributed about 50% of the vaccines. . “
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DeSantis maintained in an appearance on “Fox News Primetime” that the state’s vaccine supply was almost depleted and host Maria Bartiromo said that ‘we can probably do what we do two to three times’ if the Biden government provides them enough doses.
“I can tell you that all the first doses that come in can tear us apart in a week and then a few, no problem,” he said. “We can probably do what we do two to three times. Everything we said [is] once you have these things, you say, [like] put federal resources and create your own websites … it’s really not necessary and I think many democratic governors agree with me. ‘
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“Just give us more vaccination, because originally we were promised more up to this point,” he added. “I can get it in the arms of the elderly if we just get more in the deliveries.”
DeSantis said Psaki’s comments were ‘unimportant’ because the unused doses she was referring to had already been earmarked for seniors awaiting their second shot.
“What she said is that they administered only 54%, but what she did not say is that those that were not administered were administered according to schedule because these are the second doses for humans,” he explained.
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“The suggestion she’s trying to make is that Florida should give away second doses to people who do not come in for their second dose. Our elderly population wants to get the second dose. You are going to see the second doses in Florida is really an increase because people scheduled for it.
“But,” he adds, “we are not going to waste the second dose.”