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- ABC News
- January 15, 2021
Governors say they were misled on vaccine supply
The administration called to expand eligibility, but had few extra doses.
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\"It appears now that no reserve exists. The Trump admin. must answer immediately for this deception,\" he added.
Oregon's Gov. Kate Brown added, \"This is a deception on a national scale. Oregon's seniors, teachers, all of us, were depending on the promise of Oregon's share of the federal reserve of vaccines being released to us.\"
This is a deception on a national scale. Oregon's seniors, teachers, all of us, were depending on the promise of Oregon's share of the federal reserve of vaccines being released to us.
— Governor Kate Brown (@OregonGovBrown) January 15, 2021
Patrick Allen, Oregon's health director, said in an interview with ABC News that because of the administration's announcement state officials planned to expand availability on Jan. 23 to anyone over age 65, as well as essential workers.
Now, they won't.
\"I wish the secretary had not said that and caused us to get a lot of people's hopes up that we're now not going to be able to meet,\" Allen said of Azar.
Likewise, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said the federal announcement led the state to believe it would get 210,000 more doses next week, but it will now only get 79,000.
\"I'm shocked we were lied to and there is no national reserve,\" Pollis tweeted.
I'm shocked we were lied to and there is no national reserve.Federal announcements that 2nd dose being held in reserve was going to be released led us to expect 210,000 doses next week,other Govs made similar https://t.co/ETVIqM0clH we find out we'll only get 79,000 next week.
— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) January 15, 2021
An official familiar with the logistics of the rollout of the vaccine doses said states should have known that second doses have been going out weekly since Dec. 27. So, when Azar was talking about \"the entire supply\" he was referring to only 8 million more vaccines.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the administration has shipped out 31 million doses and 12 million doses have been administered. The vast majority of those shots are first doses.
\"It's not like there's a big warehouse where all of the second doses have been stored up,\" said the official.
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Another administration official, who also agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, said the states still haven't exhausted the supply available to order -- with some 9 million still in the system as of Friday.
But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested the damage was done when federal officials called on the states to expand eligibility beyond nursing homes and health care workers. Administration officials said their goal was to let states know they can give the doses to more groups to hasten the rollout and so nothing is wasted.
\"What they did was like opening the floodgates of eligibility, and you have a rush of 7 million people: 'I want the vaccine. I want it now. I was told I'm eligible,'\" Cuomo said.
\"And that entire flood has to go through a syringe. All this volume, and it has to go through the point of a needle, literally and figuratively,\" he said.
ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett, Brian Hartman, Michelle Stoddart and Stephanie Ebbs contributed to this report.
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