>>> THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
APPEARS TO BE CHANGING ITS COVID
VACCINATION TARGETS ON THE WAY
OUT THE DOOR.
THIS MORNING ADMIRAL BRETT
GIROIR, THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY
OF HEALTH, SAYS THE
ADMINISTRATION IS NOW PREDICTING
THAT, QUOTE, 20 MILLION DOSES
WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO STATES BY
THE FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY.
HERE’S THE DISTINCTION.
THAT’S DOSES AVAILABLE, NOT 20
MILLION SHOTS IN ARMS.
FOR REFERENCE, A MONTH AGO THEY
THOUGHT THEY WOULD MAKE ENOUGH
DOSES AVAILABLE TO PUT SHOTS IN
20 MILLION ARMS BY THE END OF
THE YEAR.
20 MILLION ARMS, BY THE WAY, IS
10 MILLION DOSES, 10 MILLION
PEOPLE BECAUSE IT’S TWO DOSES
PER PERSON.
BUT THEY WERE GOING TO CONTINUE
TO VACCINATE 25 MILLION TO 30
MILLION PEOPLE EVERY MONTH GOING
FORWARD.
THIS NEW PROJECTION COMES JUST
DAYS AFTER OPERATION WARP
SPEED’S CHIEF ADVISER,
DR. MONCEF SLA WHICH, ADMITTED
THAT THE RAMP-UP OF VACCINATIONS
IS, QUOTE, SLOWER THAN WE
THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.
INDEED.
NOW THAT THE END OF THE YEAR IS
ON THURSDAY, THE PROJECTIONS
HAVE CHANGED IN NO SMALL PART
BECAUSE THIS IS OUR CURRENT
VACCINATION PACE.
CDC REPORTS THAT AS OF THIS
MORNING, MORE THAN 11.4 MILLION
VACCINES HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED
TO STATES, BUT ONLY 2.1 MILLION
PEOPLE HAVE ACTUALLY GOTTEN
THEIR FIRST SHOT.
NOW, THERE MAY BE SOME LAG IN
THE NUMBERS THAT THE CDC HAS
REPORTED EITHER BECAUSE THERE
MIGHT BE A LAG OR MAYBE BECAUSE
OF THE HOLIDAYS, THESE NUMBERS
ARE MOVING IN MORE SLOWLY.
BUT EVEN SO, 2.1 MILLION
VACCINATIONS IS A FAR CRY FROM
20 MILLION VACCINATIONS.
NOW THEY SAY THEY’LL DISTRIBUTE
20 MILLION DOSES TO STATES BY