Biden outlines plan to administer Covid-19 vaccines to Americans

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Biden COVID-19 Team will have new name for Operation Warp Speed -- expect it to be announced during Presidential address.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Additional Members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team

 

CIDRAP - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy   1/15/2021

Biden details 5-step COVID vaccine plan, names new lead for vaccines

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...Priority groups, vaccination centers

The first step will be to work with states to clearly identify priority groups for the vaccine, the first of which will be adults 65 and older and essential frontline workers, including teachers and grocery store clerk.

To do so, Biden said the country will need 100 federally supported vaccination centers across the country, and he will call on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish the centers by the end of February. He also said he would oversee the creation of thousands of community immunization sites, such as school gyms and community centers, as well as mobile vaccination units that would travel to hard-to-reach communities to deliver the vaccines.

Biden's plan also builds on Trump's reliance on commercial pharmacies to distribute the vaccine. He also said he would use the full force of the Defense Production Act to make the supplies needed to administer vaccines, including syringes and personal protective equipment.

Lastly, Biden said he would always tell the truth about the virus, the vaccine supply, and the pandemic.

"We will manage the hell out of this operation," he said.

 

 

 

Video:  CSPAN 1/15/20

President-elect Biden on COVID-19 Vaccination Plan

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Executive Action signed 1/21/21 for Defense Production Act re  ramp up COVID-19 vaccine production, syringe manufacturing and PPS.

For your reading pleasure 200 page pdf plan released 1/21/21:

National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness

 

COVID-19

The Biden-Harris plan to beat COVID-19

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The Biden-Harris administration will always:

Listen to science

• Ensure public health decisions are informed by public health professionals
• Promote trust, transparency, common purpose, and accountability in our government
• President Biden and Vice President Harris have a seven-point plan to beat COVID-19.

Ensure all Americans have access to regular, reliable, and free testing.

• Double the number of drive-through testing sites.
• Invest in next-generation testing, including at home tests and instant tests, so we can scale up our testing capacity by orders of magnitude.
• Stand up a Pandemic Testing Board like Roosevelt’s War Production Board. It’s how we produced tanks, planes, uniforms, and supplies in record time, and it’s how we will produce and distribute tens of millions of tests.
• Establish a U.S. Public Health Jobs Corps to mobilize at least 100,000 Americans across the country with support from trusted local organizations in communities most at risk to perform culturally competent approaches to contact tracing and protecting at-risk populations.

Fix personal protective equipment (PPE) problems for good

• President Biden is taking responsibility and giving states, cities, tribes, and territories the critical supplies they need.
• Fully use the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of masks, face shields, and other PPE so that the national supply of personal protective equipment exceeds demand and our stores and stockpiles — especially in hard-hit areas that serve disproportionately vulnerable populations — are fully replenished.
• Build immediately toward a future, flexible American-sourced and manufactured capability to ensure we are not dependent on other countries in a crisis.  ...

 

 

[Beerman, BSN]

I saw another source that 1.4 million doses were given on inauguration day.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-wants-to-vaccinate-1-million-americans-a-day-uh-u-s-inoculated-912497-last-week

It seems like many of these things are already in place.

 

[toomuchbaloney]

38 minutes ago, Beerman said:

I saw another source that 1.4 million doses were given on inauguration day.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-wants-to-vaccinate-1-million-americans-a-day-uh-u-s-inoculated-912497-last-week

It seems like many of these things are already in place.

 

It seems so in what way?

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

PA + NY  report out of vaccine to administer as haven't received full allotment processed...  why are the doses Trump Admin  planned to send, now not available to be sent out?