{"id":138802,"date":"2021-02-16T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=138802"},"modified":"2021-02-16T19:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:28:22","slug":"biden-administration-increases-vaccine-supply-after-bi-partisan-letter-from-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-increases-vaccine-supply-after-bi-partisan-letter-from-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Increases Vaccine Supply After Bi-Partisan Letter From Governors"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-administration-increases-vaccine-supply-after-bi-partisan-letter-from-governors%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=138802&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\/GettyImages-1230223229.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the vaccine supply to states would escalate to 13.5 million doses per week, a 57% increase since Biden was inaugurated.<\/p>\n<p>During a call with governors on Tuesday, Biden\u2019s coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told the state leaders about the increase, which is more than the 11 million that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/539050-white-house-tells-governors-theyll-get-huge\">reportedly<\/a> currently being shipped.<\/p>\n<p>When President Joe Biden took office in January, he pledged that his administration would oversee 100 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days. Over the past month, this vaccination goal has steadily grown.<\/p>\n<p>On January 25, shortly after he took office, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/25\/president-joe-biden-targets-1point5-million-covid-vaccinations-a-day-up-from-1-million.html\">said<\/a>, \u201cThat is my promise, that we would get 100 million vaccinations\u2026I think with the grace of God and the good will of the neighbor and the crick not rising, as the old saying goes, I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than 1 million a day, but we have to meet that goal of a million a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some public health experts originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/25\/president-joe-biden-targets-1point5-million-covid-vaccinations-a-day-up-from-1-million.html\">pointed out<\/a> that Biden\u2019s pledge of 100 million shots of vaccine in his first 100 days was too small.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/25\/president-joe-biden-targets-1point5-million-covid-vaccinations-a-day-up-from-1-million.html\">CNBC<\/a> in January, when Biden became president, \u201cthe U.S. was already well on its way to achieving the necessary pace of 1 million shots per day. As of [January 24], the U.S. topped a seven-day average of 1.1 million vaccinations per day, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2021\/02\/16\/968456877\/biden-administration-says-it-has-increased-vaccine-supply\">NPR<\/a>, as of Tuesday morning, \u201cnearly 12% of the U.S. population had received the first dose of the vaccine but only 4% percent have been inoculated with both shots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also announced Tuesday that the administration will be expanding a program that ships vaccines directly to pharmacies, sending 2 million doses this week. The program will eventually spread to 40,000 pharmacies across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program will expand access in neighborhoods across the country so that people can call and make an appointment and get their shot conveniently and quickly,\u201d Psaki said <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/539050-white-house-tells-governors-theyll-get-huge\">Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cThis is a critical, critical part of our plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expansions come after a bi-partisan collection of governors sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/sites\/governor.ny.gov\/files\/atoms\/files\/NGAExecutiveCommitteeLettertoPresident.pdf\">letter<\/a> to President Biden on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The letter detailed two main \u201cissues of concern.\u201d The first surrounded the problem of information. The governors pointed out that reporting by the CDC has created confusion among some citizens of their states. They noted that the federal programs are separate from the state programs and should be reported accordingly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cWe believe it is important that the CDC in its reporting distinguish between these separate efforts to avoid confusion and provide a clear understanding to the American people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Secondly, the governors stated that the \u201cfederal decisions to use pharmacies and [Federally Qualified Health Centers] should be coordinated with state governments.\u201d They added that if the federal government works separately from the states in their distribution efforts, \u201credundancy and inefficiency may very well follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter seemed to address the Biden administration\u2019s approach of focusing more on the federal government\u2019s response to Covid rather than utilizing a state-centered strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The governors wrote, \u201cWe are the front line in the battle against COVID-19 and we will only succeed if we work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter was signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York (D), Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas (R), Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts (R), Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland (R), Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama (R), Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona (R), Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico (D), Governor Jared Polis of Colorado (D), and Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan (D).<\/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>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the vaccine supply to states would escalate to 13.5 million doses per week, a 57% increase since Biden was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181385,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230223229.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Administration Increases Vaccine Supply After Bi-Partisan Letter From Governors","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230223229.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Administration Increases Vaccine Supply After Bi-Partisan Letter From Governors","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138802","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=138802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}