Army General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for Operation Warp Speed, apologized to some state governors Saturday, acknowledging a “miscommunication” with states about how many doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine would initially be available.
The Associated Press reported that more than a dozen states were told to expect far fewer doses of the vaccine next week than originally anticipated.
Perna took “personal responsibility” for the miscommunication and wants to make sure they are committed to fair and equitable distribution for everyone in the United States.
“At the end of the day, the number of doses available to us to allocate ended up being lower,” Perna said at a press briefing Saturday. “As we gave forecasts to the jurisdictions and governors and states worked their priorities against those forecasts, when we had to decide what was eventually going to be shipped out, I had to lower the allocations to meet the releasable doses that were presented to me.”
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Friday that doses of the vaccine were waiting to be shipped in Portage and she could not get a straight answer from the Trump administration about why Michigan – as well as many other states – were only receiving a fraction of what they were supposed to get.
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Whitmer said the federal government is “slow-walking,” getting shipping addresses to Pfizer while millions of doses of the vaccine wait in warehouses.
Whitmer has long been critical of the federal government for its lack of a national strategy to address the coronavirus and reiterated that in her press conference Friday.
The announcement of the miscommunication comes less than 24 hours after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health.
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Distribution of the Moderna vaccine has already begun, Perna said Saturday, and trucks from Fedex and UPS will begin rolling out Sunday. Ancillary kits are also being shipped, according to Perna, and those kits will be married with vaccine shipments in the future.
Between Pfizer and Moderna, Operation Warp Speed has allocated 7.9 million doses that will be shipped to 64 jurisdictions and five federal entities, Perna said. Shipments will arrive on Monday and continue throughout the week.
Perna and Operation Warp Speed have learned a lot from the initial rollout this week, he said, and will apply those lessons moving forward.
“I know we’ll learn more this week, but I’m also confident that we will have the agility to correct ourselves and get things right so that the next time, it will go flawlessly,” Perna said.
In a study of 30,000 volunteers, the Moderna vaccine was more than 94% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in people 18 and older, according to the AP.
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