Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert, on Thursday said the coronavirus vaccine rollout hasn’t gone as he expected.
“We would have liked to have seen it run smoothly and have 20 million doses into people today by the end of the 2020, which was the projection,” Fauci said during an appearance on “Today.” “Obviously, it didn’t happen, and that’s disappointing.”
The Trump administration had touted a goal of getting 20 million people a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year. But the actual number will fall far short of that mark.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID data tracker, about 2.8 million people have received their first vaccine dose as of Thursday.
Fauci said he hopes vaccine distribution will increase in January but that local municipalities will need support in order for that to happen.
“There really has to be a lot more effort in the sense of resources for the locals, namely, the states, the cities, the counties, the places where the vaccine is actually going into the arms of individuals,” he said.
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WATCH: Fauci calls COVID-19 vaccine rollout "disappointing" https://t.co/yTU8ICQ2UF pic.twitter.com/8Qydba9tps
— The Hill (@thehill) January 1, 2021
Well, this is what happens when a failed businessman is put in charge of the country. As my Dad might say, Trump could screw up a one-car funeral procession.
But I’m believing more and more that, a least with COVID, the messes are intentional.
.@MittRomney rings in 2021 w barely-concealed anger over the slow pace of vaccinations https://t.co/I1naCc4opd
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 1, 2021
It’s as if government officials don’t see containing #covid as an emergency. “The number of vaccinations plummets on weekends &all but stopped for Christmas Day,when more planes landed at JFK than vaccine doses were administered in NYC” @nytimes https://t.co/j4vjttDPXz
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) January 1, 2021
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