Advertisement The US was supposed to be the most prepared country for a pandemic. And we are doing the worst - that is shocking, Scott McNabb, a professor of public health at Emory University who previously worked at the CDC, recently told Insider.
Experts have blamed the substandard roll out on a lack of preparedness and states being left to fend for themselves. There s no federal response, Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics, molecular virology, and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, previously told Insider.
Advertisement The states never had the intellectual horsepower and ability to manage something this ambitious. There are times when you need federal intervention.
Why America s vaccine rollout was a total disaster - and what it means for the next few months hbrueck@businessinsider.com (Hilary Brueck)
The US developed coronavirus vaccines in record time last year.
But the process of getting those shots into people s arms is going horrendously slow, just as more Americans are dying from the virus than ever before.
The blame lies with a president who either forgot or didn t care enough to finish off the country s vaccination plan, setting the US on the back foot.
There are promising signs that this vaccine drive is going to accelerate soon.
But the delay has already caused thousands of deaths, and it will be a challenge to come back from.