No stockpile? Governors hit Washington as vaccine chokepoints pile up

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Governors hit Washington as vaccine distribution chokepoints pile up 1 month into a vaccine rollout that has fallen short of expectations.

Philadelphia’s public health department said in a statement: “We are no longer expecting a surge of doses like Azar promised and we are not considering changing our prioritization scheme to allow for wider distribution. We have concerns that the number of doses that we will receive after January will be even less than the paltry amount we’re receiving now.”

Azar’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. His days in government are limited, with President-elect Joe Biden having designated California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his successor. Pfizer, which with its partner BioNTech is making one of the two vaccines approved in the U.S., announced this week that it wasto 2 billion doses by the end of 2021, up from a previous forecast of 1.3 billion. The U.S. is due to receive 200 million doses by July 31 from Pfizer-BioNTech.

 

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This is exactly how money laundering works. The Trump family will never take money directly, but they would 'give away' vaccine doses to other countries who will then slip a few million dollars into a Cayman Islands bank account. This stinks of corruption.

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