CNBC Television published this video item, entitled “Race to get the vaccine like ‘Hunger Games’ due to limited supply” – below is their description.
The extremely limited supply of coronavirus vaccine is causing people to pay whatever they have to to get the vaccine. CNBC’s special correspondent Scott Cohn joins Shep Smith to discuss the issues with vaccine distribution.
The Biden administration is working to purchase an additional 200 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, a move that could provide enough doses for nearly every American to get fully inoculated by the end of the summer, President Joe Biden said Tuesday.
The agreement will lessen the country’s reliance on getting additional vaccines on the market from other manufacturers. The Trump administration had passed up on purchasing more vaccine doses from Pfizer and Moderna and was instead relying on additional vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca coming to market. Johnson & Johnson said it will release data for its single-dose vaccine in the coming days.
“We can’t speak to the Trump administration, but what we can say is it is our philosophy, given the nature of this emergency and the speed with which the virus needs to be addressed, to procure enough supply as we need to vaccinate Americans and to give Americans the confidence we can do that,” a senior administration official said.
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