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US asking states to speed vaccine, not hold back 2nd dose


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SOURCE: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-states-speed-vaccine-hold-back-2nd-dose-75196062
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Summary

Both those shots require two doses to achieve optimum protection.Additionally, Washington is urging states to immediately start vaccinating other groups lower down the priority scale, including people age 65 and older and younger people with certain health problems.The move to increase the supply of vaccines better aligns the outgoing administration with the new Biden-Harris team. Azar said some states are being “overly prescriptive and trying to micromanage every single dose of vaccine,” leading to bottlenecks.Azar also criticized what he called “the hospitalization of vaccine distribution,” saying “we have too much vaccine sitting in freezers in hospitals.”State and local officials are sure to point out that it was the federal government that recommended putting health care workers at the front of the vaccination line.The Trump administration directed a crash effort to develop, manufacture and deliver vaccines, hoping to avoid a repeat of earlier debacles with coronavirus testing. Surprises don’t benefit anyone,” she said.Letting more groups in line “all of a sudden makes a lot more people potentially eligible and certainly interested and we need to have the systems in place to get them the vaccine,” Casalotti added.But administration officials pressed their case urgently.“We think right now getting the vaccine into (more) individuals, now, could really make a huge difference in the hospitalizations that you would see in your jurisdictions say four to six weeks from now,” CDC Director Robert Redfield told governors on the call, adding it was his strong recommendation.Biden, who has been highly critical of the Trump administration's pandemic response, is expected to give a speech Thursday outlining his plans.

As said here by ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON