On the 22nd local time, US White House officials admitted at the epidemic briefing that they would not be able to achieve the vaccination target previously set by the Biden administration, that is, 70% of American adults will be vaccinated with at least one dose before July 4, and ensure 160 million American adults completed 2 doses of vaccination.
It is not the first time that US officials have declared that the US government’s vaccination plan may not be reached.
When the Pfizer vaccine was urgently authorized last year, the U.S. government boasted that 20 million people would be vaccinated against the new crown by the end of 2020. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of December 31, 2020, the U.S. had vaccinated more than 20 million people. The 2.7 million doses of the new crown vaccine are far from the number previously promised by the US government.
When analyzing the reasons for the failure of vaccination targets, the US media believes that low vaccine delivery efficiency and frequent chaos in the vaccination process are an important factor. The federal government lacks a unified national plan and action for vaccine distribution and vaccination. Instead, the vaccine is distributed to each state, and each state carries out the vaccination work independently. The intensification of the epidemic has exhausted state governments, severely inadequate manpower and funds, and the medical system is unable to cope with vaccine distribution.
The various state governments have done their own things, which has also caused an endless stream of vaccination chaos. Some media broke the news that a county in Tennessee wasted more than 2,400 doses of the new crown vaccine in a single month, and more than 1,000 doses of vaccine have expired. Many US media have also exposed that some hospitals give priority to vaccinating the hospital officials and “affiliated households”, triggering official investigations.
The rich seize the vaccination quota, but the poor are “difficult to find a dose.” Unfair distribution of vaccines also occurs from time to time. According to recent data from the Kessel Family Foundation of the United States, 25% of white Americans have received at least one dose of the new crown vaccine, while the proportion of African Americans is only 15%.
Since April, the rate of vaccination in the United States has been declining. At present, there are less than two weeks left before the goal set by US President Biden on July 4; statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of June 21 show that only 140 million American adults have completed two doses of vaccination. , There is still a gap of 20 million people. The White House Coordinator of Outbreak Response, Jeffrey Zienz, said frankly that the people are not willing to be vaccinated, and it will take a few more weeks to reach the 70% target.
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