According to a Politico report, the Biden government is struggling hard to deliver on its promise to control the COVID-19 pandemic and may even have lost control of up to 20 million doses of vaccines that were sent to the states.
The report notes that Biden officials are learning that a seamless and continuous response to the pandemic is easier to promise than deliver, and notes that the government has dropped the much-vaunted coronavirus response plan on discovering the challenges they face to control the pandemics may have been more serious than anticipated.
A government official was quoted as saying, “It’s Mike Tyson’s quote: ‘Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.'”
The report also indicates that the Biden administration is unable to locate nearly 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that have been sent to the states and is concerned that “the crucial supply is boxed in warehouses, idle in freezers or floating elsewhere in the complex distribution pipeline from administration to individual states. “
Biden government officials blamed the Trump administration for this problem, which they say is not tracking what happened to the vaccines after they were sent to the states.
The report also notes that government officials have found that the available stock of vaccine is “almost empty” and that they are struggling to find ways to increase production to meet the government’s initial goal of 100 million doses of vaccination in the first few 100 days, which was widely criticized as being too modest and not even an improvement in the rate of vaccine delivery during the final days of the Trump administration.
The shortage of vaccine supplies allegedly took the Biden government by surprise and, according to the Politico report, the shortage may not be alleviated even this summer, meaning that the government’s plans to help the United States return to Normal activity can be much more blocked than anticipated.