The Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the United States is gaining momentum and could reach one million injections per day, officials assured Sunday in the face of criticism of its initial delay in a country which has just crossed the 350 mark 000 dead.
“There were some dysfunctions,” ar econnu on ABC the eminent American immunologist Anthony Fauci, who advises the government on the health crisis.
The chief medical officer of the United States, Jerome Adams, stressed on CNN that the vaccinations had started in a difficult context: in full explosion in the number of cases and at the time of the end of year holidays, putting the test medical teams.
Donald Trump's government had promised 20 million people vaccinated before the end of 2020. Currently, just over 4.2 million people have received the first dose of one of the two vaccines authorized in the country (Pfizer and Moderna), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“The good news is that we are seeing (the tempo) quickly accelerate thanks to our partners in the States,” reassured Jerome Adams.
“In the last 72 hours, 1.5 million first injections have been recorded […], which makes 500,000 per day”.
"We have carried out massive vaccination programs in our history"
"It's much more than at the beginning," abounded Mr. Fauci.
"We can reach a million a day," he added, confident.
“We have carried out massive vaccination programs in our history.
There is no reason we cannot do it today.
[…] We can do it ".
According to him, if after priority people (elderly people, caregivers, etc.), the general population can begin to be vaccinated "at the end of March or the beginning of April", at a rate of at least one million people per day, then immunity collective could be reached "by the end of the summer".
A goal desperately awaited in the country most affected by the pandemic in absolute terms.
Donald Trump also defended the work done on Sunday: "vaccines are distributed to states by the federal government faster than they can administer them!"
He tweeted.
Something how Dr. Fauci is revered by the LameStream Media as such a great professional, having done, they say, such an incredible job, yet he works for me and the Trump Administration, and I am in no way given any credit for my work .
Gee, could this just be more Fake News?
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2021
But he also claimed that the number of cases, which again recorded a record Saturday with nearly 280,000 new infections in 24 hours, and deaths was "exaggerated" by the CDC, because of an "attribution method. ridiculous ”.
"The dead are real," replied Anthony Fauci, questioned on the subject Sunday.
“I have no reason to doubt these numbers,” said Jerome Adams.