The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it will grant Governor Gretchen Whitmer's request to release millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine currently being held back by the Trump administration.
January 11, 2021
Governor Gretchen Whitmer is seeking federal permission for the state to directly purchase 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The governor’s office has released the following:
Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar requesting permission to directly purchase up to 100,000 doses of the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines for the State of Michigan. Governor Whitmer also noted that since she and eight other governors sent a letter to the Trump Administration requesting that they distribute the millions of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine doses that are currently being held back, she has not received a response.
Published: Saturday, 09 January 2021 05:56
Update: Saturday Morning; U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein: Thank you@DeptofDefense for deploying additional medical personnel to help California hospitals cope with a severe surge in coronavirus patients. LA County and Riverside hospitals will receive much-needed federal assistance while we work to overcome this pandemic.
January 9, 2021 - Washington - Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday called on the federal government to expedite the deployment of an additional 500 federal medical personnel to
California in response to the surge in coronavirus cases.
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California has activated field hospitals in numerous counties, and numerous hospitals are stretched beyond their ICU capacity and have been forced to implement ‘crisis care,’” Senator Feinstein wrote.
The release states that, according to publicly reported information, the federal government is holding upwards of 50% of currently produced vaccines for unknown reasons .
Tabling concerns about second-dose supplies, the president-elect has a new strategy to combat the slow rollout of vaccines for the novel coronavirus under Trump.
Christie Aiello, left and Denise Gomez prepare the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for medical workers at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
WASHINGTON (CN) To get more vaccines shot into the arms of Americans still grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday he would release almost all available doses in the U.S. to speed up distribution.
President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration has only released about half of its vaccine stores, intending to keep enough supply to ensure that all individuals who got the first of two shots as part of the vaccination would still get the second dose.