The White House said Friday it plans to send extra staff to help with vaccinations in hard-hit countries, but refutes calls to send more doses of the vaccine.
“We are offering states with significant increases in cases a number of additional tools to help them stop the spread,” responds coronavirus coordinator in the White House. Jeff Zients
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These include additional federal staff to help with vaccinations, as well as more testing ability and more therapeutic agents to treat people with the virus.
But the offer no longer contains doses of the vaccine itself, something that especially Michigan officials have asked for.
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Zients argued that the vaccine is still needed all over the country.
“There are tens of thousands of millions of people across the country and country who have not yet been vaccinated, and the fair and equitable way of distributing the vaccine is based on the adult population by state, tribe and territory,” he said. .
“This is how it was done and we will continue to do it,” he added. “The virus is unpredictable. We do not know where the next increase may occur in cases.”