Published December 17. 2020 7:18PM
Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON State officials said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech s vaccine had been drastically cut for next week, sparking widespread confusion and conflicting statements from Pfizer and federal officials about who was to blame.
The reduction prompted concern in health departments across the country about whether Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration s vaccine accelerator, was capable of distributing doses quickly enough to meet the target of delivering first shots to 20 million people by year s end. A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans, said the revised estimates were the result of states requesting an expedited timeline for locking in their allocations for the following week moving the notification of how many doses they could order f
Federal ‘corruption or ineptitude’ delaying COVID-19 vaccines, says Gov. Whitmer
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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Michigan is waiting for doses of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19, but federal delays mean they are sitting in Portage waiting to be shipped instead of being administered to frontline workers, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a press conference Friday.
“I still cannot get a straight answer out of the Trump administration about why Michigan, like many other states, is receiving a fraction of the vaccines that we were slated to receive,” Whitmer said.
According to the Associated Press, more than a dozen states have been told to expect far fewer doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine next week than they had originally anticipated.
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The Latest: Texas virus death toll rises above 25,000
American flags fly around the Washington Monument Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Washington. The Trump administration has closed the Washington Monument because of a recent visit by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who tested positive this week for the coronavirus. Interior spokesman Nicholas Goodwin says a couple monument workers were quarantining as a result of Bernhardt s visit, forcing a staffing shortage and the monument s closure. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) December 19, 2020 - 5:24 PM
HOUSTON â Texas on Saturday surpassed 25,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the second-highest total in the country.
State health officials reported 272 new deaths due to COVID-19, bringing Texasâ death toll to 25,226.
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