Azar: Biden’s Claim Of No COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan “Just Nonsense”

[PeteS in CA]

Azar: Biden’s Claim Of No COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan “Just Nonsense”

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/12/06/azar-bidens-claim-no-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-plan-just-nonsense/

Two days ago, the first transition contact between the outgoing and incoming administrations on COVID-19 plans finally took place. Shortly afterward, Joe Biden complained that the distribution plan at HHS “lacked detail” about getting it from the manufacturer to the actual vaccination point. “There is no detailed plan that we’ve seen, anyway,” Biden remarked, “as to how you get the vaccine out of a container into an injection syringe into somebody’s arm.”

On Fox News Sunday, HHS Secretary Alex Azar called that “just nonsense.” The issue might be more about the transition than about distribution plans, however:

“With all respect that’s just nonsense, we have comprehensive plans from the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] working with 64 public health jurisdictions across the country,” Azar said after Fox’s Chris Wallace played a clip of Biden making the remark.
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“With all respect that’s just nonsense, we have comprehensive plans from the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] working with 64 public health jurisdictions across the country,” Azar said after Fox’s Chris Wallace played a clip of Biden making the remark.

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It’s not as if distribution plans have been a big secret, though. We already know how vaccines will get “into somebody’s arm” in nursing homes, for instance — CVS has already signed up as HHS’ partner in that effort. Azar also spoke two weeks ago about the dry runs that HHS has conducted with other partners on rapid deployment of the vaccine. Thanks to the particularly unique needs for refrigeration of the Pfizer vaccine, we have also gotten significant information on distribution issues, including shipments beginning nearly a week ago to the US from Belgium and the preparation in distribution centers here for proper storage.

Either Biden is lying or Biden and his team are grossly ignorant. Probably both. Just about every detail mentioned by article author Ed Morrissey - except for the cold storage being used by Pfizer and flights from Belgium - were posted here, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,412701.0.html , months ago. The cold storage and flights were "only" mentioned on TBR a few weeks ago.