inb4 "Politico lol" Just FYI. I genuinely want Biden to be successful. Really. I just post this because of the BS narrative that Trump wasn't doing anything and that once an "adult" got in office, it should be a walk in the park for them to do the right thing. Uh huh. ‘It’s a mess’: Biden’s first 10 days dominated by vaccine mysteries Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort. Joe Biden promised he’d bring in a competent, tested team to run the pandemic response, set ambitious vaccination targets and impose strict public health guidelines. His team arrived at the White House with a 200-page response plan ready to roll out. But instead, they have spent much of the last week trying to wrap their hands around the mushrooming crisis — a process officials acknowledge has been humbling, and triggered a concerted effort to temper expectations about how quickly they might get the nation back to normal. “One of the virtues of a well-run transition is that by the time you take the reins, you have developed some rapport and trust with the career people you’re working with,” the person familiar with the administration’s work said. The “courtship has been unnaturally short,” the person added. “Nobody had a complete picture," said Julie Morita, a member of the Biden transition team and executive vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "The plans that were being made were being made with the assumption that more information would be available and be revealed once they got into the White House.” It's a steep challenge that Biden officials said they'd been anticipating for weeks, amid a rocky transition period that left them scrambling to piece together vaccine distribution plans and coordinate with state health officials. Top Biden officials have stressed that the missing doses are spread out across the states, which remain largely responsible for getting them to the health providers charged with vaccinating the tens of millions of people waiting in line for shots. But the Covid team has since had to spend hours on the phone with various state officials trying to manually track down the unused doses, a time-consuming task that's sapped resources and has yet to give officials a full picture of where exactly supplies are going. They've also sought to persuade health providers to stop holding doses in reserve, a practice borne out of concerns people wouldn't be able to get the second shot of their two-dose regimen — but one that's no longer necessary and has only contributed to the confusion, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. On a call with White House officials Tuesday, Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson vented that some states are bearing the brunt of the blame for the uneven rollout because of those reserves — a nuance not reflected in the federal numbers, according to notes of the call obtained by POLITICO. The complaint prompted a pledge from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky to issue clearer guidance for how states should manage their allocated vaccines. Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker later blamed a Trump administration program that designated pharmacies to distribute vaccines to long-term care facilities for “bringing our numbers way down” because of how slow it has been to get shots in arms. The White House has since given states permission to seize unused doses from the pharmacy program and reallocate them elsewhere. “There is no doubt they are doing a better job,” George Helmy, the chief of staff for New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, said about the Biden administration. “We have a true partner who is being transparent and collaborative.” As they grapple with the immediate distribution issues, federal officials have also raced to build out detailed plans for eventually distributing the shots to broader populations beyond health care workers and older Americans — a project that people familiar with the effort say the Trump administration never even started on. And though the Biden team had planned to boost the pace of vaccine manufacturing over time, some Biden officials said they were shocked to learn soon after Inauguration Day that there was little in the federal vaccine reserve — and that the companies producing the shots were nowhere near capable of churning out as many doses as the Trump administration had projected in the preceding months. The Biden administration has since warned that supplies will remain limited until the summer, raising the possibility of ongoing shortages even as the nation's daily vaccination rate picks up. The White House cheered promising data on a new single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson on Friday. But production obstacles have dampened expectations for its immediate impact, with one federal official likening the anticipated early flow of shots to "a trickle." That has turned the Covid team's first days into something closer to a triage operation than the more orderly rollout that the administration had hoped for, especially as much of the federal health department operates on a skeleton staff made up of career officials and a handful of early political appointees. And though the Biden administration is still pressing ahead with building mass vaccination sites and long-planned preparations for the long-term response effort, officials said the time lost navigating this early set of difficulties has set back a response already likely to consume much of Biden's first year in office. "This isn't over any time soon," said Craig Fugate, a former Obama administration FEMA administrator who worked on the transition. "There may not be a bright red line where when we cross that line we're done, we're finished and everything's going to be great." Rachel Roubein contributed to this report.
So the Biden administration is trying to locate 20 Million COVID vaccines doses that were sent to states by the Trump administration and are missing. Yes... the probable theft of millions of COVID vaccine doses by the Trump administration has already been discussed in detail. There is an entire thread dedicated to it. Your narrative is bullshiat. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/millions-of-covid-vaccines-missing-under-trump.355285/
Right, its all Trump's fault! So Biden can take credit for all the good things that happen once he goes in office because Biden. But all the bad things are Trump's. Got it!
Yeah... when you get into office and nearly the first thing you find out is that 20 Million vaccine doses are missing then it is somehow the fault of the new administration. Especially in view that the Trump administration refused to share any information prior the inauguration for a proper transfer of power. Your narrative is complete nonsense. Go back to squawking how great Ron DeSantis is.
And the article says that very thing. But the Biden administration can't find them. Did Trump steal and hide them? none of you even bothered to read the article, just leapt to the defense like good little soldiers. The article doesn't even blame Biden. I thought this would be amusing to see who would read the article in the first place or just respond with a narrative.
If they (Trump's people, as he wasn't actually engaged) stole and hid them, they would be easy to find due to their sheer incompetence. Now, if they lost them, well, they could be anywhere, may as well throw a dart at the map.