Charles Pierce asks a simple question about Team Trump's handling of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out.
Is there nothing about this emergency that these clowns can't fck up beyond all recall?
Pfizer says that it has vaccine sitting in warehouses ready to ship, but that no one from Trump's crew of misfits has asked for it.
Another person involved in the planning, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the situation, said Pfizer executives were baffled that the administration was not immediately distributing all of its vaccine, instead leaving much of it on the shelves.
This is just another example of the total leadership failure from the "best people" that Trump brought into the US government.
UPDATED: Competent leaders hire competent people. Incompetent leaders hire bootlickers and incompetents. It's even worse when the boss (Trump) has no interest in the nuts and bolts of the process.
States from California to Maine have said that their vaccine allocations have been cut while Pfizer, the manufacturer, has said that it has “millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses.”
To Bruce Y. Lee, a professor of health policy at CUNY who helped model the rollout of the H1N1 vaccine, it suggests a logistical issue.
“When vaccines get produced and they remain in the warehouse, that means something went wrong with the supply chain,” Lee said. “That it was not coordinated.”
He added that the cut in vaccine shipments, in some cases by 30 percent and some cases by far more, comes amid concerns about “what is the plan with the supply chain and delivery system, and that hasn’t been vey clear.”
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