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‘They over-promised, and now there’s under delivery’: Officials intensify criticism of COVID-19 vaccine pace
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US officials faced mounting criticism Tuesday for their slower-than-promised coronavirus vaccine rollout as a chorus of public health experts and President-elect Biden slammed what they said was poor planning and a lack of urgency about “getting shots into arms.”
“The Trump administration’s plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind — far behind,” Biden said, laying out steps he would take once in office to speed the process. “At the pace that the vaccination program is moving now ... it’s going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people.”
Biden spoke after a parade of health experts, led by Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, lambasted the federal stewardship of what would be the biggest immunization drive in US history.
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