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Biden administration inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan – reports
The pace of new coronavirus infections fell significantly over the past week, but the virus is still out of control, and a more contagious variant is gaining ground, report Axios today.
The US averaged roughly 198,000 new cases per day in the final week of the Trump administration — a 19% drop from the week before, but still a ton of cases.
The number of new daily cases fell in 44 states, compared to the previous week. South Carolina and Virginia were the only states whose outbreaks got worse over the past week.
There’s little reason to believe the US is about to turn the corner on the pandemic, or that this one week of good news will make the Biden administration’s job any easier.
198,000 cases per day is a staggering number of cases — more than enough to continue overwhelming hospitals in some parts of the country. And experts say a more contagious variant of the coronavirus will soon become the dominant strain in the US, allowing the virus to spread even more easily.
That effort by the new Biden administration is not going to be helped by what CNN are reporting this morning. In an article that has caused more than a few jaws to drop on social media this morning, MJ Lee writes:
Newly sworn in President Joe Biden and his advisers are inheriting no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to speak of from the Trump administration, sources tell CNN, posing a significant challenge for the new White House.
In the immediate hours following Biden being sworn into office on Wednesday, sources with direct knowledge of the new administration’s 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 former president Donald Trump, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States.
“There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch,” one source said.
Another source described the moment that it became clear the Biden administration would have to essentially start from “square one” because there simply was no plan as: “Wow, just further affirmation of complete incompetence.”