Misleading: The Biden administration lost 20 million COVID vaccines
Fournier’s claim is misleading. There’s a difference between losing vaccines and looking for them.
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CLAIM: The Biden administration lost 20 million COVID vaccines
RATINGS: Misleading
PUBLISHED: 2/2/2021
SUBMITTED: 2/3/2021
OUTLET: Turning Point USA
LOCATION: USA
AUTHOR: Ryan Fournier
ASSESSMENT/NOTES:
Fournier’s claim is misleading. There’s a difference between losing vaccines and looking for them.
Politico was the first news outlet to break the story that the Biden administration was trying to locate 20 million missing vaccines. After Biden was sworn in, Politico reported, his COVID-19 response team discovered that the distribution system established by the Trump administration failed to track the full route the vaccines traveled once they left the federal government’s storage spaces. As a result, there was a large gap between the number of vaccines that had been sent out by the federal government and the number that had actually been administered.
Politico’s reporting made clear that the Trump administration had set up the distribution infrastructure under which the 20 million missing doses had gone missing.
"That’s a dilemma that predated the Biden team’s arrival," Politico noted.
ARCHIVE LINK: https://archive.vn/V4Pem#selection-3027.0-3027.97
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3) https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/30/biden-covid-vaccine-states-463953