General Sorry For 'MiscoMMunication' Over Vaccine Shipments
General Sorry For 'MiscoMMunication' Over Vaccine Shipments
The Army general in charge of getting COVID-19 vaccines across the United States apologized on Saturday for miscommunication with states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution.

The Army general in charge of getting COVID-19 vaccines across the United States apologized on Saturday for miscommunication with states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution.

“I failed. I’m adjusting. I am fixing and we will move forward from there,” Gen. Gustave Perna told reporters in telephone briefing.

Perna’s remarks came a day after a second vaccine was added in the fight against COVID-19, which has killed more than 312,000 people in the U.S. Governors in more than a dozen states have said the federal government has told them that next weeks shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be less than originally projected.

Perna acknowledged the criticism and accepted blame.

I want to take personal responsibility for the miscommunication, he said. I know thats not done much these days. But I am responsible. … This is a Herculean effort and we are not perfect.”

The general said he made mistakes by citing numbers of doses that he believed would be ready.

I am the one who approved forecast sheets. I’m the one who approved allocations, Perna said. There is no problem with the process. There is no problem with the Pfizer vaccine. There is no problem with the Moderna vaccine.

Perna said the government now is on track to get approximately 20 million doses to states by the first week of January, a combination of the newly approved Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Perna said 2.9 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses have been delivered to states so far.

chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed

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