Biden said Trump's handling of COVID-19 was 'even more dire than we thought' after finding insufficient vaccine supplies

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/biden-said-trumps-handling-of-covid-19-was-even-more-dire-than-we-thought-after-finding-insufficient-vaccine-supplies/articleshow/80751222.cms

Mia Jankowicz
Feb 8, 2021, 17:47 IST

President Joe Biden said that since taking office, he found that the Trump administration's handling of the COVID-19 crisis was even worse than he had believed it would be.


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Biden said that he had been handed a "dire" situation by the former administration.

"One of the disappointments was when we came into office is the circumstance relating to how the [former] administration was handling COVID was even more dire than we thought," Biden said. "We thought that it had indicated there was a lot more vaccine available and it didn't turn out to be the case. So that's why we've ramped up every way we can."

He said he planned to use NFL stadiums for mass vaccinations to speed the process, but said that the availability of vaccines was holding things back.

"It was one thing if we had enough vaccine, which we didn't, so we're pushing as hard as we can to get more vaccines manufactured," he said.

The Biden administration also wants to launch a major pro-vaccination advertising blitz, but the project is on ice due to the low availability of doses, according to Politico.

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