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Biden also said it will announce its economic stimulus plan next week The US suffers a hospital crisis due to the pandemic. Photo: APU GOMES / AFP / Getty Images
By: EFE 12 from January 2021
WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden said this Friday that your administration will immediately distribute all the doses of vaccine available against covid – 19 and that next week it will give the details of an economic stimulus plan of “trillions of dollars”.
At a ceremony in Wilmington (Delaware), Biden described as “nonsense ”the strategy of the president’s government Donald Trump , which retains the 50% of vaccines available distributing to states and other jurisdictions more weeks late. to be administered as a second dose in immunization.
The distribution of the vaccine has been slow and Anthony Fauci , the government’s leading infectious disease expert, said the United States could reach a million inoculations per day. At that rate we will have to wait until June 2022 so that around the 80% of the country’s population receives the vaccine.
“Vaccines give us hope, but the distribution has been a nonsense ”, said Biden , who, in response to journalists, indicated that your government’s economic stimulus package , on which he will give details next Thursday, “it will have a very high price, of billions of dollars.”
In exclusive statements to CNN, the spokesperson for the transition team TJ Ducklo indicated that the president-elect believes that the vaccine should be “accelerated while we continue to ensuring that the Americans who need it most get it as quickly as possible. ”
According to Ducklo, Biden “supports immediate distribution of available doses and believes that the government should stop withholding the vaccine so that we can now inject more people.”
The Covid Pandemic – 19 has sickened more than 22 millions of people and has caused more than 355, 000 deaths in the United States and, although the Trump administration promised that some 20 millions of people would receive the vaccine towards the end of 2021, only about four million people have received.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) up to on January 8 had been distributed 21. 4 million doses and 5.9 million people had received the first dose of the vaccine.
Apart from logistics and distribution, the Trump administration notes that it is necessary to conserve doses to ensure that those who receive the first round of the vaccine, which requires two doses, have access to the second inoculation.
An article published this week by the Annals of Internal Medicine indicated that giving the first dose of the vaccine to more people, rather than saving the supply for the second, could reduce the number of new cases.
The decision could contribute to more people receiving the vaccine, but has the risk of missing booster doses .
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