Trump's fans like it that he was a political outsider. But someone who had experience would have known that an effective Covid-19 response needed good planning and support from the federal government to distribute the vaccine.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/governors-red-tape-vaccine-rollout-457909
By SUSANNAH LUTHI, SHANNON YOUNG and VICTORIA COLLIVER
01/11/2021 08:30 PM EST
Governors face a growing outcry over inflexible vaccine policies that are now being blamed for leaving millions of doses to pile up in freezers — and some to land in the trash.
Pharmacists and hospital leaders, scrambling to get the scarce Covid-19 vaccine doses into the arms of the willing, are begging state leaders not to tie their hands. They say a patchwork of Byzantine-like state regulations — and, in at least one case, the threat of monetary penalties for stepping out of line — have left the medical community paralyzed over what to do with extra supplies.
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The slow and cumbersome response from states comes after the federal government offered little support to governors, both in terms of policy direction and boots-on-the-ground reinforcements. State leaders have been left to make major decisions about distribution on their own, while facing worsening problems like a workforce shortage and funding issues that will persist until the nearly $9 billion Congress approved to help vaccine distribution is distributed.
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