Data thats just not happening fast enough. As the rate of coronavirus vaccinations falls far short of the trump administrations optimistic projections of course we need to be doing a better job, but all vaccine programs start somewhat slow. Reporter operation warp speed officials are offering few specifics on how to speed up the pace. Heres what i have confidence in. Every day, everybody gets better and i believe that uptake will increase significantly as we go forward. Reporter according to the cdc, nearly 2. 6 million shots have gone into americans arms and nearly 12. 5 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed. Vaccines on the shelf are no good. They need to get in peoples arms. Reporter the administration coming under fire from the biden team and other Health Experts for the slow rollout. What this reveals is a failure of the plan. The failure to have a National Strategy to vaccinate individuals across the country. A failure to communicate. A failure to coordinate. Reporte
Elect with two small children dies from covid complications. His doctor says he had no underlying conditions. His mentor and friend is my guest. Lets go outfront. And good evening everyone. Outfront tonight, breaking news, a grim new projection. The cdc predicting up to 82,000 more americans will die from coronavirus in just the next few weeks. Thats more than 3,400 deaths every day. Now, it comes as that highly infectious strain of coronavirus has now been identified in a second state, this time hardhit california. Were learning new details about that case and the case in colorado. Ill talk to one of colorados top epidemiologists. But this news could not come at a worse time. Today the cdc reporting nearly 2. 6 million americans have received the coronavirus vaccine. Thats a far cry from the 20 million the administration promised by the end of the year, which incidentally is tomorrow. Even the administration admitting today that there are problems. We know it should be better and were