President Biden and his Administration are spinning on this issue, trying to lowball things to make it appear they are accomplishing more. Every Administration in my lifetime does this type of "message massaging."
They are waving their hands and making motions to appear to be doing things more than are already in the vaccine pipeline. That most of the media is swallowing this is an indictment of them.
This Administration's polices on school openings is just awful. They are kowtowing to the teacher's unions and they should be hammered for it. There is no scientific argument for what they are advocating. But most of the media worked so hard to get Biden elected that they are reluctant to go after him: he's their guy and they are loathed to criticize him.
Trump was a dreadful president. His actions contributing to that disgusting riot at the Capitol were shameful. But that doesn't excuse the Biden's Administration spinning and dishonesty. We need the same standard applied to every Administration.
How ridiculous. President Biden has only been on the job for less than a month and people like Steve expect this coronavirus disaster to be solved immediately after Criminal Donald allowed it to decimate the United States for over a year.
President Biden's Administration isn't "spinning" on any issue. They are undertaking a massive effort in which they were handed a disaster that was left for them to handle. They have to make sure everything is in order first before they make an executive decision. Criminal Donald had no plan and any plan he did have was totally inept and incompetent.
The vaccine roll out and management is a perfect example. Criminal Donald passed up on securing millions of doses of vaccine for Americans. The vaccinations were well below than what they were claiming. President Biden immediately secured 600 million more vaccine doses where by July every American will be able to get vaccinated. About 2 million shots per day are being performed where people now have access to get shots at pharmacies. We never would have had any of this if Criminal Donald was still in office. It would have taken several months to get the people vaccinated that were vaccinated in the last 2 weeks. It would have taken another year or more to get all Americans the vaccine they needed. Criminal Donald failed and President Biden is saving Americans. That's why Biden was elected in an election blowout.
US 'on track' to have enough vaccine for all by end of July; expanded testing planned for schools: Latest COVID-19 updateshttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/02/17/covid-news-joe-biden-variant-vaccine-teachers/6771794002/Biden Administration purchases additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and ModernaThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DOD) have purchased an additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from both Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. to help meet demand for COVID-19 vaccines in the United States.
The orders placed today bring the vaccine purchased by the U.S. government from these two companies to a total of 600 million doses, enough to vaccinate 300 million people. Each company is delivering 300 million doses in regular increments through the end of July 2021. Each company will leverage U.S.-based manufacturing capacity to fill, finish and ship vials as the bulk material is produced.
“As the President directed, we are expanding our supply of COVID vaccines to protect people as quickly as possible,” said Acting HHS Secretary Norris Cochran. “These purchases will allow us to accelerate our vaccination efforts to get shots into the arms of the American people. While we rapidly ramp up the pace of vaccinations, I encourage everyone to take actions now to protect themselves and their families: wear a mask, wash your hands often, and practice physical distancing.”
The companies began manufacturing doses of their vaccines at the same time that clinical trials were getting underway last year. Beginning the complex process of scaling up to large-scale manufacturing in parallel with clinical trials expedited the traditional vaccine development timeline so that initial doses could begin shipping when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/02/11/biden-administration-purchases-additional-doses-covid-19-vaccines-from-pfizer-and-moderna.html
