Prognosis
Vaccination Pace Trails Expectations as U.S. Sends Out Shots
- Getting shots into arms is lagging the pace of distribution
- Minnesota reports shipment delays with Moderna’s vaccine
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The push to get Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus is proceeding more slowly than expected, an official in charge of the effort said, even as the number of shots given reached 1 million.
Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientific adviser to U.S. vaccine program Operation Warp Speed, said on a call with reporters Wednesday that getting shots into people’s arms isn’t going as quickly as he’d thought. “We’re here to help the states to accelerate that appropriately,” Slaoui said.