By Ed O Keefe, Bo Erickson
January 27, 2021 / 6:50 AM / CBS News
The Biden administration is boosting the weekly supply of COVID-19 vaccines to states and territories by 16% next week and plans to give governors more advance notice on forthcoming allocations of the shots, according to multiple state officials briefed by the White House on Tuesday.
Vaccine supply to states, territories and Native American tribes will climb to 10 million doses next week, up from 8.6 million and continue at that rate for the next three weeks. Governors will be given a three-week forecast of their vaccine allocations, giving them more time to prepare vaccine distribution plans.
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U.S. health officials acknowledged that a Covid-19 immunization campaign is crawling out of the starting gate, raising the prospect that the nation’s all-in bet on vaccines could be afflicted by the same dysfunction that hobbled other measures to contain the pandemic.
Sluggish vaccine campaign raises specter of US dysfunction
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Only about 3.05 million Americans had been vaccinated so far and with one day remaining, the US does not meet its stated goal of immunizing 20 million Americans by the end of 2020
Governments and institutions are struggling with complex logistics to keep the shots cold
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US health officials acknowledged that a Covid-19 immunization campaign is crawling out of the starting gate, raising the prospect that the nation’s all-in bet on vaccines could be afflicted by the same dysfunction that hobbled other measures to contain the pandemic.
Would we be happier with more? Of course we d be happier with more, Dr. Rutherford said.
Rutherford says right now, a state committee is meeting to make decisions about who will receive the vaccine over the next month and a half, once frontline healthcare workers have been vaccinated. I really look forward to getting the large amount of people who want to be vaccinated, vaccinated by the summer, Dr. Rutherford said.
In his conversation with Governor Newsom, Dr. Fauci suggested April could be open season for most to receive the vaccine and that by early fall we could see some sense of normality return.