Lazy Biden kan het ookniet waarmaken of geven we hem nog een maandje?
During the election campaign, Joe Biden promised to “move heaven and earth” to improve the distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the US, repeatedly criticising his predecessor for failing to come up with a rollout plan.
But now that he is president, Mr Biden is not promising a significant increase in the rate of vaccinations, leaving some to question whether the strategy his officials unveiled this month is radical enough.
“The Biden administration said it inherited no national distribution strategy, but if that is the case, how did we get to 1m vaccinations a day, and why are we still targeting that number?” asked Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University. Ms Wen praised the administration’s new plan, but added: “We should be aiming for at least 2m doses a day, if not 3m.”
The US was the first country in the world to authorise two vaccines, but it has fallen behind in the international race to get jabs into arms.