Trump administration had no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan: White House

[CountAllVotes]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There was no distribution plan for the coronavirus vaccine set up by the Trump administration as the virus raged in its last months in office, new President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, said on Sunday.

“The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House,” Klain said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Biden, a Democrat who took over from Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday, has promised a fierce fight against the pandemic that killed 400,000 people in the United States under Trump’s watch.

He signed a series of executive orders last week, including some that target vaccine distribution.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-klain/trump-administration-had-no-coronavirus-vaccine-distribution-plan-white-house-idUSKBN29T0FY

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No plan.

Why am I not shocked?

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Sad to say,

most thinking persons assumed that was the real story.

[Warpy]

28. He and his staff were far too busy bullying and cajoling people to try to cling to power

They had neither the time nor the inclination to worry about trivial things like saving lives. Besides, nobody in that gang really wanted to see precious life saving vaccine going to the wrong people, the ones without money or power.

[Wellstone ruled]

35. Way beyond that.

The usual thing to do when your the Senior Management is to surround yourself with people smarter yourself. But,in Diaper Don's case,that ain't and never will happen. He and his bunch of incompetent ass kissers killed 410k Americans as well as turn our Nation into a third world Country.

[SallyHemmings]

2. Of course there was no plan.

Plans are for suckers and losers.

He spent his entire life, watching TV, reading the New York papers, then I suppose his twitter feed, looking for reactions to him.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. You crack me up!

".....reading the New York papers"

Certainly not READING them - if anything, taking a crayon and circling his name every time he could find it - no matter WHAT it said about him - and only doing THAT when there was a commercial break on FAUX SPEWS.


But the rest - you nailed it!

[SallyHemmings]

12. Oh those pesky details!

[Bigredhunk]

3. Ugh

I detest people who think "Hey, let's elect this know-nothing with no political experience. It might be fun to mix things up." Governing is hard, boring work. But some people are really good at it and you need those people to do it.

[sakabatou]

4. Incompetence seems to have been a requirement to be part of Trump's administration

[NHvet]

8. In a family owned business

Its policy to never hire anyone smarter then the boss. Can't have the help showing you up!

[hibbing]

5. Him and the party have been actively PROMOTING the virus n/t

[mjvpi]

10. Bingo.

[kacekwl]

7. Please, there are hours of video

of trump stating his great vaccine will be distributed by my military so fast and quickly like you have never seen before. Any issue he has fucked up and lied about can be shown to be all bluster and without plan.

[pandr32]

9. That's pretty much everything

He "fucked up and lied about" everything.

[Ford_Prefect]

11. Dear Leader wasn't one, was he?

[pandr32]

13. Nope

Tweets, photo ops, rallies and endless grifting. None of that is leadership.

[MyOwnPeace]

14. OMG!!!! Anything BUT!

The only "vision" he ever had was more $$$$$$$ in his bank account and a crown on his head!

[CountAllVotes]

16. Today dump is ...

Just another dirty old man!

Not even Margo-Farto wants him!

[HUAJIAO]

32. would make a great Lincoln Project ad...

[thenelm1]

15. So the right's 'great white hope' was just another 'great white dope' - color me not surprised...

in the least. The vile creature only had a decades long history of being a bonehead and doing stupid things afterall. And that's putting it politely.

[MissMillie]

17. He was too busy trying to overthrow the government

For a job he wanted so badly, he showed no evidence that he wanted to DO the job.

[Iggo]

23. And all kinda evidence that he COULDN'T do the job.

The man's never had a real job and now he wants the hardest job in the world?

That's some serious Dunning-Kruger shit right there.

[Jon King]

18. There needs to be some specific action this week though...

I get it that Trump had no plan but I think Americans need to see something starting now. Even an announcement of 10 UPS trucks with vaccine leaving for 10 distribution centers set up by the new administration. For morale, the Biden administration needs to announce something very specific on Monday.

Folks want specifics....for example, MMM company will begin production of this swab in this quantity starting Wednesday. These vaccine sites will open on Thursday. Etc.

Cut all the red tape and start announcing very specific things that are being done immediately. This is where Trump was brilliant in his marketing, he would have the CEO of MMM flown to the White House to make an announcement.

Biden-Harris must be great marketers too.....announce in the morning very specific things being done, even if they are symbolic at first. People are trained for instant gratification, throw them something.

[HUAJIAO]

33. Dems in general are terrible at marketing...

The best Dem ads before the election were done by... republicans. (Well one former republican.)

[chowder66]

19. This is so intensely grotesque I don't know what else to say other than

everyone including Pence (who was supposedly the head of this) should be frogged marched to jail for long term incarceration.

[Jon King]

20. True, but we need to act now...

Frankly, I am a bit surprised Biden-Harris did not have a few shovel ready things in place during the transition. For example, there is a shortage of vials for testing. Why not have gotten 2 private companies on board and announce on day 1 that they would start production of the vials? This was information widely available in the news. Just an example....but certainly things like that could have been done the last 3 months.

Or why not have had the CEOs of Moderna and Pfizer at the White House last week and update the amount of vaccine being produced and how the Biden Harris team would help them improve the distribution?

I guess I am surprised that Biden-Harris did not have more than just executive orders to announce. Seems a few symbolic but specific things could have been in place for them to show the American people on day 1 or 2.

[chowder66]

21. You can only have one President at a time

and they found out that the vaccine stockpile wasn't there. They were not told otherwise and therefore did not have any buffer room.
Also, they could not start causing any confusion between manufacturers and producers of the vaccine, governors, mayors, etc.
They still have to figure out the budgetary aspects to finance all of this.

This is a massive lift and they came in with a vastly experienced team with a plan but they had to figure out all of the moving pieces.

They could not go in and start any of this without seeing what had already been done or was being done. As we all know, Asshole's administration did what they could to keep them in the dark.

There was nothing "in place" for them from the previous administration. They abandoned the American people. Biden has not.

[Dopers_Greed]

22. This evil and incompetence of the last administration

Is a crime against humanity

[Coyote45]

24. countallallvotes

Plus $$$ russia money, which is still flowing in.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

25. I got the impression they did have a loose plan but.....

it was simply to send much more of the vaccine to red states or just give them priority in proportion to quality of ass kissing.

I also have a stinking feeling they did the same with the Postal Service makeover.

Everything that administration did was transactional.....

[dalton99a]

26. Kick

[Lasher]

27. Snopes rates this claim as a mixture.

Did Biden Inherit ‘Nonexistent’ COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan?

What's True
The Biden administration signed executive orders to create a new national plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccines after states and hospitals reported dwindling supplies and unclear guidelines for how to immunize Americans under Trump.

What's False
However, the Trump administration did have a plan in place for distributing COVID-19 vaccines, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden's chief COVID-19 medical adviser, said the new administration would incorporate some aspects of that Trump-era strategy in its ongoing work.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vaccine-biden-trump/

I want my president to carefully adhere to the facts. I have already listened to enough lies to do me for a lifetime. Is Snopes wrong?

[twodogsbarking]

29. Thanks for the information

I thought it might be like the health plan.

[Lasher]

36. I can see this both ways.

From the OP:

“The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House,” Klain said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Hospitals, nursing homes, and school employees vaccinated has been the low hanging fruit because there's already communication infrastructures in place. That's already pretty much happened. The harder part is getting vaccines into the arms of everybody else. This is the stage Klain was talking about and he's right. Here in WV we can't even sign up online. They are supposed to fire one up tomorrow morning, we'll see. This is chaos.

[riversedge]

30. no shock

[bucolic_frolic]

31. No plan is the plan. No government. Let money decide everything - the Republican plan. Always.

[Rebl2]

34. Yes

That is always the republicans way. Their plan was for states to figure distribution out on their own and with no financial help.

[black-bear]

37. Genocide

Once Trump found out SARS COVID 2 was killing people of color at higher rate, he wanted it to spread to kill people who wouldn't vote for him.