Governors Furious That Promised Federal Vaccine 'Reserves' Are Already Gone

[Wicked Blue]

HuffPost
By Mary Papenfuss

Governors were livid Friday to learn that reserves of COVID-19 vaccinations promised by the federal government don’t actually exist.

The vaccine reserves had already been depleted when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced earlier this week that they would be released to states, according to both state and federal officials, The Washington Post reported Friday.

Azar said Tuesday that the Trump administration was planning to release a significant reserve of doses that it had been holding back for the booster shots. “We are releasing the entire supply we have for order by states, rather than holding second doses in physical reserve,” he promised.

But governors have since learned that there is no reserve. The vaccines supposedly held back had already been shipped out beginning in late December. The crushing news comes as death rates continue to climb just as the U.S. is encouraging states to expand vaccination eligibility to anyone older than 65 and others at high risk.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-19-vaccine-reserves-gone-governors_n_60025b9ac5b62c0057bd1dc1

[Turbineguy]

1. It's a trump operation.

[Wicked Blue]

2. Absolutely.

Mass murder.

[snort]

3. So it was a lie.

Here's an oxymoron: I'm an atheist that believes in the devil.

[question everything]

4. Azar should be charged with something

Not only the lies about the “stockpile” of vaccines, but also of saying that patients should “demand” the antibodies, when he should know that special facilities are required to administer them.

[hatrack]

5. NOW do you understand? NOW do you get it?

Sure as shit hope so.

[Wicked Blue]

9. I don't understand what you posted

Who are your comments addressed to?

[hatrack]

23. The governors - they believed what Trump and his clowncar crew said about the vaccine

Why would they believe him about anything, after four years of monkeys flinging shit?

[Wicked Blue]

24. Many of the governors raising this issue are Democrats

[LiberalLoner]

10. I get it. I've gotten it for many years now.

My signature line used to be, “they want to thin the herd.”

[PJMcK]

18. Yeah, I understood and got it a long time ago

We New Yorkers have had to listen to Trump's crap for decades. He's always been an ass. Now he's a murdering ass.

It has been refreshing this past week or so since Twitter banned him and we haven't had to hear his bullshit.

[Botany]

6. Please Donny was busy working on the great Tiktok problem, maskless rallies, and golfing

Do you think he gave a shit about the vaccines?

[OrlandoDem2]

7. Why are they so surprised?

[Wicked Blue]

8. "Who's going to be prosecuted for this?"

Further in the article, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) blamed the Trump administration for the “botched” rollout.

“This one is so far beyond the pale to be almost unimaginable,” Walz said. “Who’s going to be prosecuted for this? What are the states to do when they’ve been lied to and made all their plans around this?”

ARE WE OUT OF VACCINES? We need answers ASAP-- Wicked Blue

[Silent3]

11. Just speculation (no evidence for this at all), but it wouldn't surprise me...

...to discover that Trump and his fellow grifters have been selling the vaccine on the black market to other countries, and/or rich bastards who want their vaccine NOW, instead of waiting for their turn like the commoners.

[Wicked Blue]

12. Jared is my primary suspect nt

[dchill]

25. From day one I've wondered whether MBS got a big...

... shipment of vaccine from Jared. You know, like it was PPE or something.

[occupant]

34. Lets make a deal

Jared prolly took it to the Middle East with him in return for the cash to purchase his plot of land on that South Florida Island, $30 million , quick and easy....little skank

[Miguelito Loveless]

22. That was a given

from Day One.

[Demsrule86]

31. If true trump needs to tried on Crimes against humanity.

[Hotler]

32. Just happened to fall off the back of a truck. nt

[cilla4progress]

13. Confused:

What about the millions of vaccines on
ice that Maddow referred to?

[soothsayer]

14. Do they lie just for the sake of it?

What was the point of this lie?

[SheltieLover]

19. Giving kushner cover to go sell them on international market?

He is pretty good at that.

[soothsayer]

20. True, or they never existed

[SheltieLover]

35. Follow the money, as always with repukes

Something weird with Moderna vaxes. Repukes heavily invested.

[Yeehah]

15. The entire Trump administration is composed of incompetent liars.

Anyone is foolish to believe a word from their stinking lying mouths.

[SheltieLover]

16. Even repuke governors?

I've not heard 1 peep from gov Lee, high goose stepping repuke.

[RobertDevereaux]

17. Trump's pattern of mass murder in many forms continues apace.

May our climb out of this morass be swift!

[soothsayer]

21. Now Biden can TRULY claim the cupboards were bare

I’d rather there be vaccines there, though

[bluestarone]

26. So do we know how many vaccines we were provided with?

The providers (Moderna, Pfizer) need to tell us how many were given to us!! Then track them down.

[Demsrule86]

30. You mean find out who Trump and Jared sold them to?

[bluestarone]

33. YES!

That's what we need to discover! (before the senate removes this CRAZY and from ever running again)

[EndlessWire]

27. "they had already sent out everything they had..."

Did they? Why do we believe that it all got distributed?

Biden recently said that HE would distribute all the doses. Now, today, we have nothing left. I want to see those brave people who went first get their second dose. Otherwise, what good was it? That's what we were told. Two shots needed.

It is just so wicked. I was hoping that once we saw how the vaccines worked, we could manufacture and distribute them to SA. It would be the right thing to do. That, and Africa. But, no, the Trump Regime is foul and filthy to the bitter end.

The pharmas know what they manufactured, the lot numbers, and where they went. Let's start there and track it up the line to see who took those doses.

I don't think that Azar knew anything. I think he was in the dark along with the rest of us. Imagine his surprise...

[Demsrule86]

29. Azar knew. He has blood on his hands...hope he doesn't need any sort of job.

[Demsrule86]

28. Who did they sell them to?