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Vaccine distribution fiasco continues in the United States The first three weeks of coronavirus vaccination in the US have proven to be a debacle. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), less than one-fifth of the 11.4 million vaccine doses distributed have been administered. At the current rate of about one million doses administered per week, it will take another 329 weeks, or more than six years, to administer the vaccine to everyone in the country. In addition, si...

The U.S. vaccine rollout moved slower than expected, stoking fears of systemic problems and people having to wait months longer to get their shot.

Local funding crisis threatens U.S. vaccine rollout By Carl ODonnell and Rebecca Spalding FILE PHOTO: Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination in New York NEW YORK (Reuters) -Seattle public health officials have so little COVID-19 funding on hand they worry they will have to shut down some virus testing sites as they mount a campaign to dose their 2.3 million residents with Pfizer Inc’s and Moderna Inc’s vaccines. King County, which represents greater Seattle, has...

 | Updated December 31, 2020 Trump administration officials were saying just a few weeks ago that 20 million Americans could be vaccinated against COVID-19 by year’s end. Now here we are, and only 2.1 million people have gotten shots, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even allowing for a lag in the reporting of data, the final numbers for 2020 will be well short of the administration’s goal, as Operation Warp Speed officials have ack...

Published Thursday, December 31, 2020 7:27AM EST NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) -- Seattle public health officials have so little COVID-19 funding on hand they worry they will have to shut down some virus testing sites as they mount a campaign to dose their 2.3 million residents with Pfizer Incs and Moderna Incs vaccines. King County, which represents greater Seattle, has $14 million of COVID-19 funding for 2021, roughly what it spends in a month to run public testing sites and oth...

Frustration over vaccine rollout builds “It had to go this way,” Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told STAT. “We had to trip and fall and stumble and figure this out.” Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, said some of the gap between doses administered and delivered is likely due to a program run by CVS and Walgreens to vaccinate those in nursing homes. States participating in the program have to se...

ADVERTISEMENT The Trump administration had a “misperception” that “shipping the vaccine was success,” instead of following all the way through to vaccinate people, said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, which represents states’ vaccination officials.  She added that the projection of 20 million vaccinations by the end of the year was “way off to start with.” “I don’t know why that was said, honestly,” she said.  Trump administra...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines hold promise to control the pandemic and help restore normal social and economic life. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for 2 messenger RNA vaccines and will likely issue full biologics licenses in the coming months. Anticipating vaccine scarcity, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) published guidance on vaccine priorities. Data for the vaccines granted...

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Well, as the second week of COVID-19 vaccinations draws to an end,

Trump’s attack is holding up $8.75 billion in desperately needed funding that states thought they were getting to help pay for vaccine distribution.