White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said on Thursday that the Biden administration is trying to build a centralized national resource to help turn the disparate state and county coronavirus vaccine strategies the new administration inherited into a “federally led effort.”
I wonder if this effort will be the genesis for a robust national health care system. Fingers crossed.
Hopefully one of the first things they do is to make sure the vaccines are available in the FL Counties that did not vote for Trump
So “Every man, woman, and child for themselves!” turned out not to be a viable strategy?
Huh.
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Robert Redfield tried to rebuff those claims, saying he was glad to have given Biden “a foundation to build on.”
A foundation to “build on”?? Roger that, seeing as the pandemic only broke out in late December, catching the CDC and FDA completely off guard, and we only knew we were going to have to mount a national vaccine program starting last Tuesday. There just wasn’t much time…
They need to couch this in terms the electorate understand - a war.
Wars are worth paying for. Just need to gin up the righteousness.
Covid as Satan? Attacking evangelicals in far greater numbers than liberals?
Oops.
Except imagine FDR having to fight WWII with half the population throwing a tantrum, claiming that Pearl Harbor was a false flag staged by crisis actors, and this “country” known as Germany probably doesn’t even exist.
Hmm seems inadequate. We have at least two in my county alone.
The feds don’t need to waste time setting up their own vaccination centers except maybe in some really rural/remote areas of the country, like on reservations, where there just aren’t enough resources in place to get the shots to people. The feds need to do one thing: coordinate a massive ramp-up of vaccine production and then get those shots to cities and counties that need them to keep up with demand. Counties and local health authorities are perfectly capable of setting up vaccination sites, taking reservations, etc. They just need the damn shots.
The Jarad led program of leave it to the states was obviously not working.
NYC has a robust public health infrastructure that can handle a mass vaccination program as it had years past. From what I have read the Biden Ron Klain plan relies on FEMA to run the mass distribution of the vaccine via the pop up centers.
That statement has been proved false in state after state, especially in Florida.
Who could possibly have predicted that an ignorant, selfish narcissist might not adapt very well to public service?
Well, okay, besides her.
And Texas.
It’s a fucking mess. The states and counties do not have the wherewithal to get this done. We need the federal government.
My brother lives in Palm Beach County, FL. Palm Beach County (a county with three hundred fifty thousand seniors) apparently ran out last week after I received my first dose. The closest he could find was in Miami about 90 miles away. He got into his car and drove to Miami for his first dose. My brother can afford to travel that sort of distance, what about all the people who can’t afford to travel.
DeSantis says all he needs to do is make doses available to local counties and they will handle things, but the local counties don’t have those sorts of resources. And God only knows how DeSantis is allocating the vaccine.
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Robert Redfield tried to rebuff those claims, saying he was glad to have given Biden “a foundation to build on.”
The great state of Texas levies no income tax.
It’s one of several states where people apparently prefer not to support their own government with such a tax.
Not to say there is no federal role, but let’s keep things in context where we can.
I expect some states, like NY and CA, to happily accept the help and collaborate with the feds to work through the parts of their vaccination system to get shots out, and add new support in places that are lacking. My real question is how many of the red states will declare “state’s rights!” and refuse assistance…it’s not going to be surprising to hear that from some state that thinks it’s doing just fine and doesn’t need any interference. And, fine, they can go it alone, that makes it better for the rest of us (and their citizens don’t seem to care).
The complete reversal of the federal response in two days isn’t surprising, but it should be…it’s just an obvious marker of how the Trump administration failed America, and I bet we get more evidence of that as the Biden administration sorts out the damage.
That makes no sense.
That is a non sequitur.
The problem is the governor is in charge of which counties get how much vaccine and plays politics with it.
