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The U.S. is unlikely to meet its goal of vaccinating 20 million Americans by the end of the year, health officials said this week. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Snowstorms, holidays and general inexperience in handling a pandemic response is to blame for a lag in the number of Americans so far vaccinated for the coronavirus, according to U.S. officials.
The federal government previously estimated that 20 million Americans would receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine by the end of the year. But as 2020, a year defined by the coronavirus pandemic, comes to a close on Thursday, the government appears set to fall well short of that goal.
U S Likely Will Miss Goal Of Vaccinating 20 Million By The New Year
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Del millón de personas que han recibido la vacuna de Pfizer, solo 6 han tenido reacciones alérgicas
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VT: When Trump “forgot” to order enough vaccine, Pfizer went into full overtime production at their Michigan facility. Millions of doses now sit in warehouses but can’t be distributed, not to Michigan, not to Illinois, not to other Blue States as General Gustave E. Perna claims he simply “screwed up.”
There is also no evidence that deliveries of vaccine to VA facilities are moving forward either. No schedule is in place for vulnerable vets though promises have been made to vaccine VA employees and those still alive at care homes where massive die-offs have been the rule over the past year.