COVID vaccine or not ?

Will you get the COVID vaccine?...

  • Heck yes.. first in line

    Votes: 54 45.4%

  • You go first and I will wait and see

    Votes: 35 29.4%

  • I am already part of the herd

    Votes: 9 7.6%

  • Absolutely not

    Votes: 21 17.6%
  • Total voters
    119
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Trump administration accused of deception in pledging release of vaccine stockpile

By Peter Szekely, Steve Gorman

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The governors of several states accused the Trump administration on Friday of deception in pledging to immediately distribute millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses from a stockpile that the U.S. health secretary has since acknowledged does not exist.

Confusion over a vaccine supply windfall that was promised to governors but failed to materialize arose as scattered shortages emerged on the frontlines of the most ambitious and complex immunization campaign in U.S. history, prompting at least one large New York healthcare system to cancel a slew of inoculation appointments.

Just 10.6 million Americans have received a shot since federal regulators last month granted emergency approval to two vaccines, one from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech and a second from Moderna Inc, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported.

That tally falls far short of the 20 million vaccinations the Trump administration had promised to administer by the end of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged virtually unchecked with ever-increasing record numbers of infections, hospitalizations and deaths.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines each require an initial dose and a booster shot given about three weeks apart.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar had said on Tuesday that the administration would release millions of doses it had been holding in reserve for booster shots in order to help spur a sluggish rollout of first doses to those most in need of the vaccine.

Azar said then that the administration was confident enough in the supply chain to release its stockpile, and urged states to use the additional supply to open inoculations to everyone aged 65 and over.

‘DECEPTION ON A NATIONAL SCALE’

Many states obliged, but on Friday a number of governors said they were dismayed to learn that no stockpile existed.

“Last night I received disturbing news, confirmed to me directly by General (Gustave) Perna of Operation Warp Speed: states will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week, because there is no federal reserve of doses,” Oregon Governor Kate Brown said on Twitter.

“This is a deception on a national scale,” Brown added, demanding an explanation from the outgoing administration.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that the federal government ran down its vaccine reserve in late December and has no remaining reserves of doses on hand.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, appearing at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for the opening of a mass-inoculation site, said Azar and Vice President Mike Pence had committed on a conference call this week with governors to releasing a vaccine reserve that Newsom said had included some 50 million doses stored in Michigan.

“And then we read, as everybody else, that they have reneged on that, or for whatever reason are unable to deliver on that,” Newsom said.

Brown and Newsom’s comments were echoed by at least eight other governors, most of them fellow Democrats, including Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, who called the situation a “slap in the face.” Colorado Governor Jared Polis said he was “extremely disappointed” that Azar had “lied to” his state.

Azar suggested in an interview with NBC News on Friday that the doses in question had already been allocated to the states.

“We now have enough confidence that our ongoing production will be quality and available to provide the second dose for people,” the HHS secretary said. “So we’re not sitting on a reserve anymore. We’ve made that available to the states to order.”

Pfizer said it has been holding on to second doses at the request of the federal government and anticipated no problems supplying them to Americans.

“Operation Warp Speed has asked us to start shipping second doses only recently. As a result, we have on hand all the second doses of the previous shipments to the U.S.,” a company spokeswoman said in a statement.

RACE AGAINST CONTAGION
The latest stumble in the vaccine campaign came as the number of known U.S. infections of the virus that causes COVID-19 surpassed 23 million, more than 388,000 of which have proven fatal, according to a Reuters tally.
Adding to anxieties over the pace of immunizations, the CDC warned on Friday that a new, highly transmissible variant of the virus sweeping Britain could become the dominant form in the United States by March.

In New York, the country’s most populous city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city has vaccinated about 300,000 of its more than 8 million residents, but was on course to run dry next week because it was burning through vaccines faster than they were being replenished.

At least one New York City healthcare system, Mount Sinai Hospital, canceled vaccination appointments, and another, NYU Langone Health, suspended new ones amid shortages, officials said.

In Los Angeles, Governor Newsom joined Mayor Eric Garcetti and other officials in launching a mass inoculation site at Dodger Stadium, an operation they said would be the largest in the nation, administering 12,000 shots a day by next week.

The baseball arena, which had been devoted to drive-through diagnostic testing for months, is one of several vaccine “super stations” opening across California, home to 40 million people and a U.S. epicenter of the pandemic in recent weeks.

President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on Wednesday, said on Friday he would order increased production of syringes and other supplies to accelerate a vaccine rollout that he has called a “dismal failure.”

He has set the goal of immunizing 100 million Americans, about a third of the population, within the first 100 days of his administration.
 
Maybe there is a shortage because of NY ineptness and having to throw out who knows how many doses? The doses that are out there aren't being used anyway
 
They don't even use what they got, but they're bitching
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alnav said:
Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly Obvious
You can’t help but wonder why the Trump administration left so many of these things undone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/opinion/biden-covid-19-plan.html
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The focus should be on the states and not the president. Its how a republic works. I love the blame game of the governors play when they have screwed up. They want all the credit when something good happens but none of the responsibility when they are to blame.
 
Jgren said:
We know lockdowns obviously aren't working. So lets assume in the fashion of true idiotic leadership he will push for more lock downs and suggest to governors to impose them on us peasants.
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Oh, you mean the policy of the current Administration? No, from my reading it appears the new Administration is actually going to actively work on putting an end to the pandemic, as opposed to the current grand plan of blame it on somebody else, call it a hoax, and then fob it off on somebody else after they lose interest.
 
Henry Boyd said:
Oh, you mean the policy of the current Administration? No, from my reading it appears the new Administration is actually going to actively work on putting an end to the pandemic, as opposed to the current grand plan of blame it on somebody else, call it a hoax, and then fob it off on somebody else after they lose interest.
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Yes, the current administration in MN has failed in regards to covid policy. Actually, I would say Governor Walz has completely failed because he still holds emergency powers over the state. (since March 2020)


However, in regards to our fading Republic. What is Biden's plan? He said he had one - will it be 100 days of masks? Trump will be no more in 2 days. All I hear right now is Biden's going to shut down the XL pipeline, join the Paris Accord, grant Amnesty to illegals, repeal the tax cuts and restart the Iran Nuclear (at Chinas demand) deal which will put the Middle East back into chaos. What's his plan to save we proles from this new strain?
 
and not holding allies to their NATO $$$
 
President Harris will have us all on lockdown until most small businesses have closed and families are broke and have to rely on government to survive. At that point they will control us and everything we do.
 
OllieC said:
Yes, the current administration in MN has failed in regards to covid policy. Actually, I would say Governor Walz has completely failed because he still holds emergency powers over the state. (since March 2020)


However, in regards to our fading Republic. What is Biden's plan? He said he had one - will it be 100 days of masks? Trump will be no more in 2 days. All I hear right now is Biden's going to shut down the XL pipeline, join the Paris Accord, grant Amnesty to illegals, repeal the tax cuts and restart the Iran Nuclear (at Chinas demand) deal which will put the Middle East back into chaos. What's his plan to save we proles from this new strain?
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Don't forget about releasing all inmates. They will be much safer in public
 
boatman37 said:
President Harris will have us all on lockdown until most small businesses have closed and families are broke and have to rely on government to survive. At that point they will control us and everything we do.
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Maybe it's time to buy a sailboat ;)
 
OllieC said:
Oh yes, forgot about that....and let's not forget he is going to eliminate the travel bans as well.
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Yep, the central american's r already headed this way, the must have received a tip.
 
Alot of the people who voted for this administration who had nothing to lose i.e. the lower class has everything to gain as far as government funding ,all the people who owned a home a business or a decent job and still voted for this incoming administration just put everything that they have in jeopardy of losing and puts more financial strain on everything you have to pay for . When you don’t own a car or house you don’t worry about fuel prices ,tax prices etc.Be careful what you wish for you might just get it .....oops too late it was supposed to be us against them with people against government and Tierney foolish foolish sheep
 
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