First Chief of Staff to President-elect Biden, Ron Klain
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“We’re inheriting a huge mess here, Jake, but we have a redress plan. The president-elect released that plan on Friday,” Klain told CNN. Jake Tapper
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Klain said a $ 20 billion effort to combat COVID-19 in the United States, unveiled on Friday by the president-elect, would put the United States on the right track to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
He said the new Biden administration intends to take steps to increase both the production and distribution of the two COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use in the United States.
“We think there are things we can do to speed up the delivery of that vaccine and move the vaccine supply forward,” Klain said. “For example, one thing the president-elect mentioned yesterday was using the Defense Production Act to increase the production of a certain type of syringe that allows us to take six doses of vaccine out of a vial instead of five.”
Klain added that despite concerns about the federal government’s depleting vaccine reserve, the Biden team now believes the United States is on track to reach “100 million shots in 100 days” after Biden’s inauguration. .
Biden on Thursday called the Trump administration’s launch a “negative failure” in a speech Thursday and pledged to focus on both improving the U.S.’s vaccine distribution infrastructure and combating vaccine skepticism in some communities.
“So far, the launch of the vaccine in the United States has been a negative failure,” Biden said on Thursday. “This will be one of the most challenging operational efforts we have ever made as a nation. We will have to move heaven and earth to vaccinate more people. “