A reporter who questioned whether President Biden’s promise to ramp up vaccinations to 100 million was a big deal was met with ridicule at a Biden press conference on 22 January. The reporter pointed out that former President Trump had ramped up vaccine distribution to meet a similar goal.
“When I announced it, you all said it’s not possible. Come on, gimme a break man!” President Biden irately objected.
Later, Press Secretary Jen Psaki tried to spin things to suggest the Biden administration was greatly revamping and accelerating the vaccine program that Trump initiated and achieved in “Operation Warp Speed.” She claimed the Trump administration had reached about 500,000 vaccinations per day.
“What we are proposing is to double that to about one million shots per day. We have outlined this goal and objective in coordination and consultation with our health and medical experts.”
What Psaki failed to acknowledge was that the former administration was on a trajectory to boost the number of shots closer to the one million number, with shots per day jumping over 800,000 in the last five days before the inauguration. News sources pointed out that if that daily number kept up, total vaccinations would reach about 97 million in the 100 days since vaccinations began on 21 December.
TRENDPOST: Like vax, hate vax, love Trump, or hate Trump, we include this article to illustrate media bias and political banter. To date, Trump’s projections compare closely to Biden’s 100-million goal, yet Biden attacked Trump for not vaccinating fast enough while promoting that in his first “100 days we can change the course of the disease and change life in America for the better.”
