Members of the Biden administration somehow are unable to locate 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that went out recently, according to a report.
The White House Press Office has been strangely silent on the issue (and on other pressing issues) over the past several days, and the public is now finding out the most probable reason why that is the case.
According to Politico, they have also discovered that a vaccine stockpile has been mostly depleted due to the massive shipments having been sent out.
One anonymous source said, "It’s the Mike Tyson quote: ‘Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth. They are planning. They are competent. It’s just the weight of everything when you sit down in that chair. It’s heavy."
“Responsibility for tracking them has been left up to states’ individual public health systems. The administration then only gets an update once the doses are actually administered and an official record is submitted, continued the source.
"One of the virtues of a well-run transition is that by the time you take the reins, you have developed some rapport and trust with the career people you’re working with,” continued the same source, but also said that in this particular case, "the courtship has been unnaturally short."