Thread by @SimonWDC

Essentially the only strategy Trump has had to defeat COVID was to hope vaccines would come quickly. They have - but of course this godawful corrupt Administration had no plan for how people would actually get the vaccine.

An infuriating thread.

https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1343768397084053505

The Administration never established a federal response to COVID, despite all the federal tools they had been given - CDC, FEMA, HHS, DOD - to manage a crisis like this. There is no federal infrastructure, no command and control, no plan - just hope, pray states can manage.

The failure to establish a national and testing regime, with the feds working alongside the states in a single command and control structure, is haunting the vaccine rollout now. There simply is no federal system to oversee the vaccine rollout - it has never been established.

So if my college age son is away at college this spring who ensures he gets the vaccine? Does he have to come home to DC to get it, or can he get in MA? If his first dose is in May does he have to stay in MA after school ends to get the second dose? Who keeps track of all this?

Lack of certainty here could lock people into not traveling, not going to school etc this spring/summer. If my window to get a vaccine is April to June, does that mean I have to stay in DC to wait my turn, and if I'm not here, I miss my turn? Uncertainty here is staggering.

Here's more on how far behind the vaccine roll out is right now - we need to be at 3.5m shots a day and are currently at 1m a week.

https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1343920976854196225

Let's cut the data a little differently - we need to average 3.5m vaccinations a day to hit herd immunity by June. Right now we are around 140k/day. That's less than a tenth of where we need to be RIGHT NOW to have something like a regular summer.

They had a year to get ready.

Jared Kushner predicted we would be back to normal by June/July of 2020, and right now we are not on track to get there even by June/July of 2021. The scale of the operational failure here is hard to put into words.

Jared = incompetent dilettante.

https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1343976685444722688