Covid Vaccine "Stockpile" - Stuffin' the BS

[Jimmy Higgins]

Well, is this a surprise? Well yeah... a little.

Hopes of a surge in Covid-19 vaccine shipments under a new policy to release second doses held in reserve appear to be evaporating -- with the revelation that those doses have already been distributed, contrary to recent indications by the Trump administration.

A senior administration official told CNN that when the administration announced that it would be releasing reserved doses Friday, many of those reserves had already been released into the system starting last year as production was ramping up.

The revelation appears to contradict what Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced on Tuesday at an Operation Warp Speed briefing, where he said the administration would be "releasing the entire supply for order by states, rather than holding second doses in reserve."

Jesus fucking Christ!

Now yes, early in deployment, only have so many vaccines, especially after Trump had half the stock dumped in the Potomac (probably). So yeah, time. We knew this. It would take time. But what people weren't told is that people getting the shot don't have a second shot in storage... when officials across America thought there was. All just a silly mistake I suppose. Everyone got the same wrong impression.

The revelation that second doses weren't strictly held in reserve was first reported by the Post, which also reported that the Trump administration had shifted its strategy to begin tapping into second doses late last year.
"We are hearing there is not a stockpile of vaccine for second dose but that it was more of a 'paper exercise,' " said Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. "The stockpile appears to be all on paper; they were tracking anticipated need but not actually holding back product."

I can't wait to find out the GDP was actually -5% for the year and unemployment is 13%.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Now yes, early in deployment, only have so many vaccines, especially after Trump had half the stock dumped in the Potomac (probably). So yeah, time. We knew this. It would take time. But what people weren't told is that people getting the shot don't have a second shot in storage... when officials across America thought there was. All just a silly mistake I suppose.

Dumped in the Potomac?? No, he would sell them to the highest bidder. Gotta repay his loans somehow.