Gov. Whitmer, Coalition of Governors Urge Federal Government to Release More COVID-19 Vaccines January 7, 2021 Governor Gretchen Whitmer joined seven other governors on Thursday in writing a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Operation Warp Speed Chief Operating Officer General Gustave Perna, urging the federal government to release more doses of the COVID-19 vaccines. “Our states are ready to work around the clock to ramp up distribution, get more shots in arms, and save more American lives,” the governors said in a letter. “General Perna, as you have stated be...