Instead, HHS had already distributed that reserve starting from the end of December. State officials are now furious, especially because many states began expanding eligibility to new groups of people, including essential workers and adults over 65, in anticipation of receiving more doses in the coming weeks.
Federal officials say they are confident that those who got a first dose will be able to get their second on time. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown called the news “disturbing.”
Vaccine Shell Game, Trump ‘Disappeared’ 65 million doses , $2bn to bail out his Flagging Empire
The Senior Editor
We know our vaccines went to Israel. We know some went to Britain. What we don’t know is where the rest are and what we have to do to find out. Vaccine production levels and inventories simply don’t match, not close, not remotely close.
Between 70 and 100 million doses may have already been produced. Moderna claims production issues and will only produce 20 million in January. But they produced all through December as well.
Moderna, with a much smaller capacity than Pfizer, projected 500 million doses for 2021, then raised that to 600,000. But when vaccines began to disappear, they lowered that to 20 million a month, though their NASDAQ MRNA report says otherwise, from Forbes:
Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) provided updates on the manufacturing of its Covid-19 vaccine, noting that it was increasing the baseline production estimate for this year to 600 million doses, 100 million more than it had initially projected. The company also said that it was continuing to invest and add staff to potentially produce as much as 1 billion doses for the full year. This is positive news, considering that Moderna has no real manufacturing track record and has never produced or sold a commercial drug prior to the Covid-19 shot. Moreover, the mRNA technology that Moderna (and Pfizer) are using requires specialized manufacturing equipment.
Then they claimed 400,000 doses were spoiled but where are the rest?
Pfizer produced multiple millions per day but the Trump administration is refusing to take delivery and has blamed the Army for screwing up. This, however, was a month ago and no correction has been made. From Pfizer:
“Pfizer is not having any production issues with our COVID-19 vaccine, and no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed. This week, we successfully shipped all 2.9 million doses that we were asked to ship by the U.S. Government to the locations specified by them. We have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses.”
To summarize: Minimally, 80 million doses were produced for US distribution and a little over 10% of these have been shipped. The rest, however, aren’t in inventory anywhere.
Where are they? Current vaccination levels, entirely constrained by lack of inventory, entirely limited by shipments from the US Army, have drawn out the time for the US to reach an immunity level to 30 years. Trump promised 20 million vaccinations during the last two weeks of December, something easily possible as an initial stage of a ramp up.
There are 10 million licensed medical professionals in the US capable of giving the vaccine. If half participated and did 3 shots a day, do the math.
Producers can deliver that amount easily. We have planes galore, trucks and freezers. But where is the vaccine?
One man controls it, Donald Trump, a lifelong grifter with a bankrupt empire and a family facing ruin and prison.
Killing Nancy or Raping AOC for a Parler audience, was this really Trump’s plan, put together by a former 3 star general?
Trump knew that as soon as New York State landed charges, his empire was done, banks would call in loans and end credit lines. He simply accelerated it by a couple of weeks, no more.
The real issue is vaccine. There is no vaccine left in the US. Total vaccinations, if you can believe any source, run from a low of 2.7 million to 9 million, under 3% of population.
Most states have no inventory at all and none is being shipped. Governors, like Michigan’s Whitmer, are offering state funds to Pfizer to buy 100,000 doses to cover highest risk. Pfizer hasn’t responded. Why?
This is a shell game. What we know? Vaccines were in full production from Pfizer in late November with inventory by year end, between Pfizer and Moderna hitting around 50 million.
Worst case figures may even go above 100,000,000 already produced.
Probably shipped to Israel!
Here in the f(UK) information about vaccine supplies and shipping are suddenly a state super secret lol
Information released by the devolved scottish government was suddenly pulled off of official websites, but is still seemingly available on google cache lol
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6EgC8KRgHJEJ:https://www.gov.scot/publications/covid-19-vaccination-plan/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nl
The math is still ambiguous about supply, stocks and actual vaccinations but its becoming more apparent day to day that its another westminster .gov screw up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/gps-in-england-say-inconsistent-supply-of-covid-vaccine-causing-roll-out-issues
reference
https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/read-uks-new-covid-vaccines-delivery-plan-full-tens-millions-be-immunised-spring-3091536
https://flipboard.com/topic/scotland/scottish-government-retracts-vaccine-plan-following-backlash-from-uk-ministers-a/a-jILFBqdlQLW7uOW5IFJo8Q%3Aa%3A3199678-5a6bb98f94%2Fco.uk
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/01/14/scottish-government-retracts-vaccine-plan-following-backlash/
f = former
If it can be proven that the Trump family disappeared the vaccine supply I suspect the Iranians will be at the end of a very, very long line.
Jim, I love the website and information you provide. However how does one go about educating the cult members of the RNC? I’m certainly no Democrat or a Biden supporter. When information like this is provided that is researched and factual and given to Trump voters they simply dismiss it has fake news. Although the amount of evidence is overwhelming it is beyond incredulous that these individuals will certainly not listen to any reasoning.
Sorry, but the only thing that will change the minds of the type of people you are referring to is hearing from someone that they already consider an authority figure (there are psychological studies to back this up).
Welcome to how the real world works (to paraphrase a Duffism).
Do not speak to nor associate with Trump supporters. They cannot be educated. They aren’t trustworthy enough to deal with.
Live a decent life. Cut out the cancer.
I’ve already told in a comment before, Chinese vaccine has proven have only 50% effectiveness. Who can have $2Bn cash in hand to pay in silent way and also want desire to have for themself a working vaccine as insurance policy?? Add to that, Alex Azar was in Taiwan a bit time ago and also few days ago Pompeo “smoothed” or lifting self-imposed restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan relationship….. Never liked me the coincidences.
Well, this explains why Netanutjob is bragging about Israel having almost all Israelis ( Jewish ) vaccinated. Trump sent plane loads of masks to the Talmudic State while US Drs and nurses were making their own.
Trump is like the burglar who as the police are escorting him from the premises somehow manages to raid the medicine cabinet on the way out the door. The man is a kleptomaniac of the first order. But, he will escape to Israel or Russia with all the loot anyway.
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