Joe Biden’s inadequate policies to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, weeks later, are displeasing Democrats who recently criticized Donald Trump’s failure.
Biden went to the presidency, promising the Americans a clear strategy to counter the coronavirus, despite the fact that the start of vaccination cannot be called his merit. But Biden announced the opening of hundreds of new vaccination points at once, believing that this will speed up the introduction of the vaccine. The idea would make sense if there were enough vaccines in the US.
Upon first learning of the Biden administration’s initiative, Oklahoma authorities jumped at the opportunity to open additional vaccination centers in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Lawton. They believed that the federal authorities would provide additional doses of the vaccine to the centers. Biden decided that vaccines for the new centers would come from the state’s existing stocks.
“We’re not ready to pull the trigger if it doesn’t come with the vaccine,” said Oklahoma Deputy Health Commissioner Keith Reed.
The plan to combat COVID-19, which Biden bravely promised the Americans, meant opening 100 new vaccination centers, and by the end of February. He wanted to recruit thousands of employees and contractors from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Pentagon and other federal agencies in this work. But now the work is frozen due to the banal lack of stable vaccine supplies.
“This is not necessary in Florida,” Republican and State Governor Ron DeSantis responded to Biden’s idea. “I would take all this energy and use it to increase the supply of the vaccine.”
As the Associated Press writes, disappointed with the approach of the new president are many Democratic governors who vehemently supported Biden and criticized the Trump administration’s methods of fighting the coronavirus.
“What we need is a supply of vaccine, not more ways to distribute it. We have enough of that, ”said Tara Lee, spokeswoman for the Governor of Washington.
Other Democrats, including Kentucky Gov. Andy Besheer and Illinois Gov. Jay Pritzker, have expressed similar views.