{"id":132908,"date":"2021-02-15T08:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=132908"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:43:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T13:43:02","slug":"harris-called-out-after-saying-in-many-ways-were-starting-from-scratch-on-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-called-out-after-saying-in-many-ways-were-starting-from-scratch-on-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Called Out After Saying, \u2018In Many Ways, We\u2019re Starting From Scratch\u2019 On Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-called-out-after-saying-in-many-ways-were-starting-from-scratch-on-vaccines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=132908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Harris-3-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday evening, Axios published a tweet featuring a brief snippet of Vice President Kamala Harris charging, \u201cThere was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations \u2026 in many ways we are starting from scratch.\u201d Axios commented, referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has remained in the government as President Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser on Covid-19, \u201cAt a press conference last month, Fauci said \u2018we certainly are not starting from scratch\u2019 on vaccine distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VP<\/a> Harris to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeallen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mikeallen<\/a>: &#8220;There was no national strategy or plan for [COVID-19] vaccinations. \u2026 We&#8217;re starting from scratch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference last month, Fauci said &#8220;we certainly are not starting from scratch&#8221; on vaccine distribution. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AxiosonHBO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AxiosonHBO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TdYnOHN1Bw\">pic.twitter.com\/TdYnOHN1Bw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Axios (@axios) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axios\/status\/1361089865685884931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Excerpt of the exchange between Harris and the Axios reporter:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Reporter: You\u2019re coming up on a month in. You\u2019re inside the machine. What do you think is harder about the pandemic? Like, how are you finding the hole is deeper?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Harris: I mean, the challenge, Mike, is that, you know, what I explained to the mayors. There was no stockpile, right? It\u2019s in many ways \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reporter: No stockpile of \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Harris: Of vaccines. Right? So we\u2019re looking at this \u2014 there was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations. We were leaving it to the states and local leaders to try to figure it out. And so, in many ways we are starting from scratch on something that\u2019s been raging for almost an entire year. And that\u2019s, um \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reporter: So are you having to adjust your sights now as to what\u2019s possible, given that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Harris: And to challenge that everything is possible we\u2019ve got to figure out a way. That has to be our standard. Our standard has to be everything is possible but we\u2019re going to have to work like heck to get it done. Which means again no patience, no patience for delay, no patience for \u201cno,\u201d no patience for \u201cit can\u2019t be done.\u201d You now, that\u2019s how I feel about it and maybe that\u2019s why I was laughing because sometimes I express that kind of emotion \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/21\/politics\/biden-covid-vaccination-trump\/index.html\">CNN reported<\/a> on January 21, the day after President Biden\u2019s inauguration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In the immediate hours following Biden being sworn into office on Wednesday, sources with direct knowledge of the new administration\u2019s Covid-related work told CNN one of the biggest shocks that the Biden team had to digest during the transition period was what they saw as a complete lack of a vaccine distribution strategy under&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">former President Donald Trump<\/a>, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States. \u201cThere is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch,\u201d one source said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another source described the moment that it became clear the Biden administration would have to essentially start from \u201csquare one\u201d because there simply was no plan as: \u201cWow, just further affirmation of complete incompetence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/01\/21\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-january-21-2021\/\">White House press briefing<\/a> the very same day, a reporter asked Fauci, \u201cAnd if I could just ask you about the effort to distribute the vaccines, because, of course, that\u2019s what most people want to know: when are they going to get a vaccine. Is the Biden administration starting from scratch with the vaccine distribution effort, or are you picking up where the Trump administration left off?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci answered, \u201cNo, I mean, we certainly are not starting from scratch because there is activity going on in the distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday evening, Axios published a tweet featuring a brief snippet of Vice President Kamala Harris charging, \u201cThere was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations \u2026 in many ways &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893454,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3645,3781,4021,6763,6762,6764],"class_list":["post-132908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-after","tag-called","tag-harris","tag-many","tag-saying","tag-ways"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}