WH COVID Officials Dispute Biden’s Claim Of ‘No Detailed Plan’ On Vaccine Rollout | Talking Points Memo

Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser of Operation Warp Speed, and HHS secretary Alex Azar on Sunday pushed back on President-elect Joe Biden’s claim that “there is no detailed plan” on COVID-19 vaccine distribution.


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If you have plans, then why did you not share them with the Biden transition team? This may be the only way Biden can force the Trump admin to share more info. I honestly hope they really do have some plan, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.

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The distribution plan will be analogous to the distribution plan for PPE, i.e. every State for itself.

Talk to Jared about donations so your place in line can improve.

Said only partially in snark.

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Then by all means, show your work.

Also: Nothing trivial, I hope.

ETA

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It seems to me that Dr. Moncef Slaoui actually confirms this when he talks about the State’s responsibilities to cover the last mile i.e. “out of a container, into an injection syringe, into somebody’s arm.”
They don’t have a plan for that because it is not their job. It’s the other guys.

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Lotta ‘splainin’ to do. Something struck a nerve.

Slaoui said. “And I feel confident that once we will explain it, everything in detail, I hope the new transition teams will understand that things are well planned.”

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The plan is, you know, the plan.
It is what it is.

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So the coronavirus yet again jumps species!

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And these GOP lawsuit filing shitpuffins want to subject us to 4 more years (or more?) of this shitshow.

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Ummmmmm…I know I am a bad person for thinking and saying this, but I hope Rudy gets a really really bad case of it. After all of the agony he has put so many people through, it would be karmic.

And maybe, maybe, someone might just listen if he gets a bad case.

(The past four years have turned me into a person I don’t recognize any more – I am hoping the Biden/Harris administration will break the fever.)

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Yeah, it’s hard for Trump’s team to maintain credibility when they have made a deliberate choice to not meet with Biden’s team on an issue of paramount importance to the American people. Then putting the onus on states, as Slaoui did, doesn’t inspire much confidence based on what we saw in March and April.

Based on their track record, there’s no reason to believe them, until they provide actual evidence and documentation.

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Man, I would’ve thought that all that booze would have blocked COVID’s entry into the body of the worst mayor in NYC history. (If one glance at his body didn’t repel the virus in the first place)

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" WH COVID Officials Dispute Biden’s Claim Of ‘No Detailed Plan’ On Vaccine Rollout"

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Just to make sure everybody saw it
Rudy Giuliani Tests Positive For COVID-19, Trump Says | HuffPost

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Step 1: Stand next to the people who are actually doing work.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!!

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I can only hope that his deep and very long and painful suffering is detailed every day for MAGA. They learned nothing from Herman Cain.

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That would be Paragon of Government Ethics Moncef Slaoui?

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Oh, no! Now who’s going to take the daily court beatings? And why is Trump announcing it? I remember when they actually gave bad-faith lip service to HIPAA. I believe it was Grenell.

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One of my all time favorite cartoons. Have used it in a number of presentations…

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