![]() ![]() We rectified that," Biden said in a March 2 speech.īiden has focused more on vaccine equity, with new FEMA-run sites "When we came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America. MORE: Biden says there will be enough vaccine for American adults by end of May On Wednesday, Biden announced he wants another 100 million J&J doses to be delivered by the end of the year for "maximum flexibility." adults by the end of May - two months earlier than planned. The result was Biden's announcement that he secured enough doses of authorized vaccines for all U.S. And after J&J got the green light from the Food and Drug Administration in February, he worked with industry officials to try to accelerate its delivery timeline. The new president quickly exercised contract options with Pfizer and Moderna to boost supply to cover 300 million adults. adult by summer.īiden though didn't want to take any chances. It also had purchased enough J&J vaccine to buy supply for 100 million adults once authorized - enough supply to cover every U.S. agreed to buy enough doses for 200 million adults from vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna with "options" to buy more if necessary. government hadn't ensured that it would have enough supply to cover every adult with vaccines already authorized by federal regulations.īut that's in part because Trump officials last year were eyeing a third vaccine - Johnson & Johnson - that only required one shot, was easier to handle and was on the cusp of authorization. When Biden took office, it's true that the U.S. "To say that there was no plan - it's just completely disingenuous," said Mango.īiden shored up supply, but he did it using Trump-era contracts Mango said a major challenge for the Trump administration was getting supply and distribution channels up and running in the first place. The new administration though has accelerated the rollout with an eye on inequities in the nation's health care system. While Trump’s statement is an exaggeration - development of the vaccine itself was largely a feat of private industry - it’s true that many of Biden's public "wins" on the vaccine, including expanding supply and distributing doses to local pharmacies, are tied directly to efforts initiated by policy aides working under Trump before he left office. ![]() In a statement released Wednesday, former President Donald Trump declared that if he hadn’t been president “you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful ‘shot’ for 5 years at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all. ![]() The public slight appears to have irked the former president, along with his retired aides who told ABC News they are baffled at the political jabs in what was supposed to be a nonpartisan effort to vaccinate America. Despite calls for national unity and bipartisanship, President Joe Biden and his top aides have declined to give the Trump administration credit on the nation's COVID-19 vaccine rollout while relying heavily on a system established by their predecessors. ![]()
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