Detroit Free Press: Michigan health officials say state getting shorted on COVID-19 vaccine; Pfizer disagreesABV 8.3% wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 4:40 pm And, of course, this HILL article tRumps any WashPost article, as it has actual links to Pfiezers publications.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5 ... ent-delays
so, beyond the fear porn of the WashPost, what else you got, regarding the delay. Pfiezer, itself, says everything is fine. You? blame trump
TPM: What Has Happened To The Promised Doses Of The COVID Vaccine?
So at least a dozen states reporting shortfalls. Pfizer says they have no problem. Therefore the problem is in between...simple logic.Some major problems are already emerging in the initial rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, and the federal government is not providing any good answers.
The early warning signs:
At least twelve states are reporting cuts in their initial allocations of doses.
One governor is reporting that the total number of doses projected to be available nationwide has been cut by four million monthly.
The vaccine maker reports it is not having production problems and says it has doses in warehouses, but is awaiting direction from the federal government on where to send them.
The combination of no production problems plus doses sitting in warehouses suggests some issue with the federal government’s oversight of the distribution of the vaccine.
But it’s not exactly clear what the hold up is. The federal government has not offered an explanation for the shortfall in available doses.
The reduction was announced during a “CDC/OWS all-state call” Wednesday afternoon, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Lynn Sutfin told TPM.
Most disturbingly, Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker (D) suggested that the entire federal vaccine distribution effort was falling short of what had been expected. Federal officials with Operation Warp Speed have promised a monthly cadence of 20 million doses per each manufacturer per month. But Pritzker said that federal officials had told him that the Trump administration would only be able to distribute 4 million doses of the vaccine per week.
He added that his state would receive half of what it has expected of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks.
In addition to Pritzker’s Illinois, California, Kansas, Nebraska, Maryland, Michigan, Washington, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Oregon, and Florida have said that they expected to receive less vaccine than federal officials had initially promised, offering different reasons for why.
A spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told TPM that the “federal government delayed the number of Pfizer vaccines that California will receive in the next shipment.” The spokesperson had no explanation as to why state’s allocation had been reduced.
Gov. Jay Inslee (D) of Washington state said that his state’s vaccine allocation had also been slashed by around 40 percent, without any explanation from federal officials.
“This is disruptive and frustrating,” Inslee said in a Thursday tweet.
