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But in the meantime, they should know that 40 million plus shots have gone out.Īre you working toward any kind of more unified system where we're not all trying to register at every pharmacy and the hospital and the local health authority and everywhere else?
And, you know, I think people are going to have to probably continue to be more patient and they want to be. We are, as you said, starting to move directly into what we're calling a federal retail pharmacy program so that there will be more places for the vaccine to be available. We're opening 100 community vaccination centers, including two that are open already. We've increased production that we've delivered to states by over 20%. But the good news is we are increasing production every week. We're in a situation, and we will be for a little while, of undersupply. What is the plan to keep this rollout to pharmacies from making an already chaotic process more chaotic? But it's got a lot of people already wondering how they're going to access those doses because getting appointments has been such a scramble for so many people. This is the week that some 6,500 pharmacies across the country are going to get doses of the vaccine, which is great. On All Things Considered, Slavitt said the government is working to make getting appointments easier and is considering mobile vaccination centers. Scientists say vaccinations need to be as fast as possible to prevent more contagious coronavirus variants from taking over.Īndy Slavitt, a White House senior adviser on the COVID-19 response, says "people are going to have to probably continue to be more patient than they want to be," as the government works to get more doses out.
have already gotten one dose.īut demand still outstrips supply in cities across the country, while anecdotes abound about difficulties of trying to get appointments. is currently administering about 1.4 million vaccination shots a day. Slavitt talked with NPR about the vaccine rollout. Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, speaks during a White House briefing on Jan.
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