After just one week in the White House, the Biden administration is already buckling under the pressure from the coronavirus pandemic as officials are still yet to locate 20million COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed to the states last month.
A Politico report on Saturday painted a picture of what officials have described as a messy transition for the Biden team that has been confronted with a worse-than-expected situation on nearly all fronts.
Prior to taking office, Biden had promised to tackle the pandemic with an effective COVID-19 response plan and later announced a rather ambitious goal to inoculate 100million Americans in his first 100 days.
The news came as the number of people hospitalized in the US with the virus fell below 100,000 for the first time in almost two months.
Biden's team is still trying track down the 20million doses that were first distributed by the Trump administration early December that are now unaccounted for.
On Saturday, the total number of confirmed cases surpassed 26million after 146,657 new infections were reported across the country, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
While the cases and deaths remain high, hospitalizations continue to dip with Saturday marking the first time that number fell below 100,000 since December 1.Weekly data also showed infections have decreased by 14 per cent and hospitalizations are down 12 per cent.
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Biden's COVID team is still trying to find 20M missing vaccine doses
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