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Trump Administration Changes Course to Speed Up COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
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The Trump Administration is making several big changes to its coronavirus vaccine distribution strategy, officials announced Tuesday, in a bid to jump start the rollout and get more Americans vaccinated quickly.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar discussed the coming changes on Good Morning America Tuesday, and is expected to share more details about them at a midday press event.
The first of the changes is to stop holding second doses of vaccine in reserve, and instead ship more doses to states right away. We had been holding back second doses as a safety stock, Azar said. We now believe that our manufacturing is predictable enough that we can ensure second doses are available for people from ongoing production, so everything is now available to our states and our health care providers.
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Almost four weeks after the first American was vaccinated against the coronavirus, around 6 million people have received one of the shots far below the US target, set last year, of 20 million by the end of 2020, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of Thursday, 5.9 million people had received a vaccination, up from 5.3 the day before, the CDC said. The US surgeon general said this week the United States is averaging about half a million vaccinations a day.
While the target of 20 million may have been too high to begin with, the holidays may have caused delays, some health experts said, and there may be a time lag in reporting vaccinations.