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Originally Posted by Bucco
The thread is about the distribution and administering of the vaccine...
.....States did not ask to be "in charge". It is a role that is normally theirs, for sure, but to say "The states insisted on being in charge" is just not true at all.
.....Federal government decided to make it the responsibility of the states instead of simply taking charge.
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Here is the federal governments plan to help the states distribute the vaccine which many in the media said was impossible to develop in a year. So it is a falsehood to say the federal government dumped it on the states.
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tember 18, 2020 -- The federal government has released information about how it plans to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine once it’s approved by the FDA.
During a Wednesday news briefing, federal officials said they hope to make the vaccine free of charge and available within 24 hours of approval. Health care workers and other essential workers will probably be the first to get the vaccine, which will initially be released in small quantities.
But they admitted many questions remain about the vaccine -- such as which ones will be approved.
"We're dealing in a world of great uncertainty," Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health Human Services, said, according to CNN. "We don't know the timing of when we'll have a vaccine. We don't know the quantities. We don't know the efficacy of those vaccines."
The administration has published two documents about vaccine distribution.
Health and Human Services posted an 11-page distribution strategy titled "From the Factory to the Frontlines: The Operation Warp Speed Strategy for Distributing a COVID-19 Vaccine."
The CDC posted the 57-page "COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook for Jurisdiction Operations."