Trump Admin Sabotaging Biden's Vaccine Rollout

Floyd

Jan 15, 2021 at 12:06pm

The Trump admin refused to work with the Biden team on the vaccine rollout. In the last days of their admin they now moved eligible to 1C knowing full well there is not enough.

They released a vaccine reserve that does not exist.

How will that affect the Biden admin? Many who are now eligible and over the next months cannot get the vaccine will blame Biden. Republicans will claim we released vaccines so if you don't get one ask Biden why not.

The last time a presidential transition began during a national emergency — in 2008 amid the Great Recession — the outgoing Bush administration set aside partisanship to work closely with incoming Obama officials on how to deal with the economic collapse.

“Everyone was completely responsive to any question,” said Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama. “They talked to us about major decisions.”

That smooth handoff is in stark contrast to what is happening now as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to assume power during a double-barreled crisis involving a lethal virus and its economic fallout that experts say demands close cooperation. Instead, as the coronavirus overwhelms U.S. hospitals and kills more than 3,300 people a day on average, the Trump administration has balked at providing access to information and failed to consult with its successors, including about distributing the vaccines that offer the greatest hope of emerging from the pandemic.

The decision to urge states to immediately vaccinate a much larger pool of people — about 81 million between the ages of 16 and 64 with high-risk medical conditions — was “absolutely inappropriate,” said Michael Osterholm, a member of Biden’s coronavirus advisory board and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

“When you make a recommendation that … far exceeds the number of doses that are available for the foreseeable future, that’s not helpful,” Osterholm said. “It only creates confusion, frustration, and frankly, a lack of trust in the system.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/14/transition-biden-trump-vaccine/

When Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed, according to state and federal officials briefed on distribution plans. The Trump administration had already begun shipping out what was available beginning at the end of December, taking second doses directly off the manufacturing line.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/15/trump-vaccine-reserve-used-up/

A bunch of psychos. They don't care who dies. What they care is looking good while making the Biden admin look incompetent.

Red_Barchetta

Jan 15, 2021 at 12:41pm

They lack the competence and ethics which would result in them looking good. All they can do is make the other guy look bad.

cramer

Jan 15, 2021 at 1:39pm

SALEM, ORE. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says the state’s efforts to increase COVID-19 vaccinations have been thrown in disarray because of “deception on a national scale” by the Trump administration.

Via Twitter on Friday morning the Democrat said she was told by General Gustave F. Perna, who leads the “Operation Warp Speed” federal vaccine effort, that states will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week “because there is no federal reserve of doses.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2021-01-15/oregon-governor-no-federal-reserve-of-virus-vaccine-doses

nohero

Jan 15, 2021 at 2:47pm

Trump's Covid-19 vaccine roll-out is the Trump University of "Salad Oil Scandals"

The History of New York Scandals - The Great Salad Oil Swindle -- New York Magazine - Nymag

"De Angelis was a commodities broker who’d run into trouble with the law for supplying improperly prepared meat to the federal school-lunch program. In the early sixties, he finagled an initial contract with the U.S. government’s Food for Peace program, which sold excess foodstuffs to poor countries. And on the basis of his stunningly large, almost totally fake inventory—De Angelis claimed 1.8 billion pounds of soybean oil, but had only 110 million—the swindle raised at least $180 million from investors."