The article on PoliticalThe website has the following title: “‘It’s a mess’: Biden’s first 10 days dominated by vaccine mysteries”. Now, everyone loves a mystery. I am partial to The Hardy Boys and Sherlock Holmes, Myself. But detectives working at the White House are unable to solve the mystery of the lack of 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that were sent to the states, but so far have not been found.
This is the president who would bring competence back to the White House. Instead, his people created a cluster of gigantic proportions.
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After a week at work, Biden’s team is still trying to locate more than 20 million doses of vaccines that have been sent to the states – a mystery that has hampered plans to accelerate the national vaccination effort. They are looking for new ways to increase the production of a vaccine stock that they found to be almost empty. And they are looking at a series of new strains of Covid-19 that threaten to hinder the response.
“It’s Mike Tyson’s quote: ‘Everyone has a plan to get punched in the mouth,’” said a person with knowledge of the vaccine’s effort who is not authorized to discuss the work. “They are planning. They are competent. It’s just the weight of everything when you sit in that chair. It’s heavy.”
Perhaps the job is a little more difficult than it looked in the campaign. This is especially true when it comes to government bureaucrats. They don’t care who the president is, as long as they can maintain their power and authority. It becomes a complicated mess when the new administration’s avid beavers want to start implementing all of their grandiose plans while entrenched bureaucrats are on Washington time.
Only a small percentage of people not counted per dose – about 2 million, said two officials – are due to delays in data reporting, Biden’s team believes. This would mean that the rest of the crucial supply is stored in warehouses, idle in freezers or floating elsewhere in the complex distribution pipeline that runs from administration to individual states.
This is a dilemma prior to the arrival of the Biden team, with Biden himself classifying the first weeks of the vaccine’s launch under the Trump administration as a “total failure”.
However, the response team initially underestimated how difficult it would be to fix.
Any plan initiated by any of the presidents would have been affected by organizational problems, bureaucracy, incompetence and waste of time. In this case, you have 100 million doses of the vaccine being passed on by the federal bureaucracy to 50 state bureaucracies.
What could go wrong?
Since then, the Biden government has warned that supplies will remain limited until the summer, increasing the possibility of continued shortages, even as the country’s daily vaccination rate increases.
The White House celebrated promising data on a new Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine on Friday. But production hurdles have reduced expectations of its immediate impact, with a federal official comparing the anticipated flow of photos to a “drip”.
How long Biden could blame Trump for the mess is unclear. The media will try to cover it up, but the end result is that Biden’s “plan” to deal with the pandemic collapsed as soon as it hit reality. That probably means it will be fine in the fall before we can really get back to normal.