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Original title: The United States did not meet the vaccination target of 20 million, only about 3 million were vaccinated

　　[文/观察者网 陈思佳]Emergency authorizationPfizerBy vaccinating, the US government once boasted that it would vaccinate 20 million people with the new crown vaccine before the end of 2020. Now that 2020 is over, the United States is far from this goal.

According to the latest data updated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on the night of December 30 local time, from that day on, the US Department of Health and its agencies partners have delivered 14.57 million vaccines throughout the United States, vaccinating more than 2.96 million people, including the original target. 15% of them are not reached. Fauci, one of the leading US infection experts, said on the 31st that this result is truly disappointing.

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued that since there is generally a two to three day observation period after vaccination, there is some lag in the CDC data and the actual number of vaccinations will be higher. However, news sites like Axios and “Politicians” noted on December 31 that this number is still far behind anyway. Everyone lamented that while the US government set a goal, it did not achieve it at all.

Since early December, US government officials have repeatedly bragged about going to Haikou, but reality has continued to “grapple.” According to Reuters records, in early December, US health officials claimed that 40 million vaccines could be provided by the end of the year and that 20 million Americans would be vaccinated with two doses; However, as the vaccination work progressed, they changed their words and said that they would “provide enough of vaccines”, there is no longer talk of specific amounts.

By December 23, the United States had only completed vaccinating 1 million people. Faced with the huge gap, Moncef Sloy, the chief scientific advisor to the US vaccine project, had to admit that the US could not carry out the initial vaccination plan. While Gustav Perner, executive director of “Operation Warp Speed”, which is in charge of vaccine distribution, apologized and changed his words and said that the goal of “delivering 20 million vaccines” must be reached before the end of the year.

However, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even the goal of “delivering 20 million doses of vaccines,” the United States was ultimately unable to complete before the end of 2020.

Given this result, Fauci said on December 31 that the US government did not achieve its goal by the end of 2020, which was very disappointing. Fauci said he thought the vaccination work would progress smoothly and reach the goal by the end of 2020, but it’s clear the United States hasn’t made it.

As for the reasons for the failure of vaccination targets, the “Washington Post” believes that ineffective vaccine distribution and frequent chaos in the vaccination process are important factors. The report noted that the Trump administration’s approach is to distribute the vaccine to every state, with each state carrying out vaccination work independently. However, the states have insufficient human resources and funds and the medical system cannot cope with the distribution work, so the distribution efficiency is low and the vaccination work is chaotic.

The report cited several examples from states: In the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 500 doses of vaccine were discarded because local doctors did not do a good job of cooling; In Maine, although the state government promised to promote the vaccine as soon as possible, it was not until late December. The vaccination work was not done in its entirety and the medical staff did not know when they would see the vaccine.

The “Politician” website also criticized in the report that the Trump administration has placed too much responsibility on already stressed local health departments. However, the Trump administration itself has not urged Congress to pass the epidemic relief bill. Instead, Procrastinated over and over again. Even if the funds are received, it will take several weeks for states to establish large-scale vaccination sites and improve the vaccination process.

With the emergence of new cases of mutated coronavirus in the United States, vaccination appears to have become more urgent. Former US Food and Drug Administration professional Gottlieb warned the US has missed a narrow but critical “window period” for vaccination and urged the US government to speed up the vaccination schedule and contain the epidemic as soon as possible. In this regard, Sloy said that they will do everything possible to increase the amount of vaccination.

Biden, who will take office in January, has also proposed his new goals. According to the New York Times, Biden announced that after taking office, he would use the National Defense Production Act to increase vaccine production and “complete 100 million vaccine doses within 100 days of taking office.” But the report noted that this is no small goal, and Biden hasn’t given any specific implementation plans.

Several health experts like Fauci have estimated that at least 80% of the 330 million people in the United States must be vaccinated against the new corona to achieve herd immunity, today less than 1% of the American population is vaccinated. The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) estimates that if vaccinated at the current rate, it will take at least 10 years for the United States to get the epidemic under control.

The epidemic situation in the United States still shows no signs of improvement and the epidemic is still in deep “winter.” According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, at 6:00 a.m. on January 1, 2021 Beijing time, the total number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States has reached 19,893,290, and the total number of new coronary deaths has reached 344,399. In the last 24 hours, 229 042 newly diagnosed cases and 3744 new deaths were confirmed

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