Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the Trump administration had left a “vague” plan for distributing the coronavirus vaccine – while he defended Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims that President Biden’s team should “start from scratch” when he took office .
Harris defended Axios on HBO last Sunday night, and the infectious disease expert was asked about the remark this week during a Fox News Sunday interview.
Still Chris Wallace asked, “Is that true?”
“The only thing we can say is that the infrastructure and capacity in planning the distribution of vaccines in people’s arms was really quite vague, as I said before. I mean, obviously nothing was done because we developed the vaccine, we manufactured them and they were shipped “, said Fauci.
He said critics should give Harris a “break” because she “didn’t want to say it from scratch.”
“I mean, obviously, we had vaccines that we gave to people, right before the end of the year. So, what was she referring to and I’m sure you can ask her again that she will say that it was the process of passing it smoothly in people’s arms, which was a difficulty, very early, we are just getting along well now “, he continued Fauci.
Since taking office, Fauci said Biden has tried to expand the distribution of the vaccine, taking it to community centers, pharmacies and mobile units, as well as hiring health workers to get the shots into people’s arms.
“I think the vice president was referring to the fact that if you’re talking about those things that I just mentioned, they weren’t in their place when the president came in after the inauguration,” Fauci said.
In his remarks from a Pfizer manufacturer in Michigan on Friday, Biden pointed his finger at his predecessor.
“Just over four weeks ago, America had no real plan to vaccinate most of the country. My predecessor – as my mother would say, “God loves him” – failed to order enough vaccines, failed to mobilize the effort to administer vaccines, failed to set up vaccination centers. That changed when I took office, “he said.