The distribution of vaccines against the Covid-19 by the Trump administration was
"a masquerade"
, accused this Friday the elected president Joe Biden, who will be invested in 12 days.
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“The vaccines give us hope, but the distribution has been a sham,”
he said from his home town of Wilmington, Delaware.
“This will be the greatest operational challenge we will ever face as a Nation,”
he added.
Earlier this morning on Friday, CNN reported that the future Biden administration would distribute all available doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, rather than withholding half of the doses to meet deadlines. the second injection.
"President-elect believes we need to speed up vaccine distribution while continuing to ensure that Americans who need it most get it as quickly as possible."
TJ Ducklo, a spokesperson for Joe Biden's transition team, told CNN.
"He is in favor of the immediate distribution of the available doses, and considers that the government should stop curbing the supply of vaccines, so that there are more doses in the arms of Americans now,"
said TJ Ducklo .
The two vaccines currently licensed in the United States, developed by Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, require recipients to receive a second dose within three or four weeks respectively.
By eliminating the requirement to withhold half of the reserves, authorities hope to boost the number of people who could receive the vaccine quickly.
But delaying the injection of the second dose would reduce the level of personal protection and the United States Medicines Agency (FDA), like immunologist and government adviser Anthony Fauci, opposed it.
A theoretical political change
However, this policy change announced by the future Biden administration remains theoretical for the moment, since the major problem in the vaccination campaign in the United States currently lies in the distribution of doses rather than their supply.
The federal government oversaw the dispatch of 21.4 million doses, while only 5.9 million people received a first injection.
The approximately 15.5 million remaining doses have not been put in reserve for use as second doses, but are actually stored cold by hospitals and clinics that have not yet used them.
The United States is the most bereaved country with more than 365,000 deaths recorded since the start of the pandemic, including almost 4,000 in 24 hours as of Thursday alone, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is the benchmark.
