President-elect Joe Biden is taking aim at President Donald Trump as the pace of vaccinations for the coronavirus is slower than government officials were expecting.
During a campaign event for the two Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia, Biden addressed the slow pace of vaccinations for the coronavirus.
“Getting America vaccinated will be one of the most difficult operational challenges this nation has faced, but we’ve known that for months, and this administration has gotten off to a God-awful start,” he said.
He continued, “The president spends more time whining and complaining than doing something about the problem. I don’t know why he still wants the job. He doesn’t want to do the work.”
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President-elect Joe Biden: "The President spends more time whining and complaining than doing something about the problem. I don't know why he still wants the job, he doesn't want to do the work." pic.twitter.com/6u0BumAjrj
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Biden won the presidential election on November 3. However, Trump has refused to concede and has made baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud. Meanwhile, several Congressional Republicans are planning to object to the Electoral College vote count, an effort which is widely seen as a long-shot bid to overturn the results of the election.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 4.5 million Americans have received their first Covid vaccine dose.
However, that number is far short of government officials’ goal of 20 million vaccine shots.
Dr. Anthony Fauci also weighed in on the rollout as he said, “We would have liked to have seen it run smoothly and have 20 million doses into people today by the end of the 2020, which was the projection.”
“Obviously, it didn’t happen, and that’s disappointing,” he added.
Officials in New York and Florida have warned that hospitals that do not speed up the distribution of vaccine doses will see their supplies transferred to other hospitals that are vaccinating Americans at a faster pace.