[World Report] "I'm worried about the vaccine remaining"... Biden's'Vaccine Sweep'

● Started with 60,000 people a day and surpassed 1 million…

I heard the explanation of why vaccinations increased

. As Washington was blocked, the inauguration ceremony of President Biden was such a big article that we could not update the vaccination situation in the United States for a while.

When I took a breath and checked the vaccination statistics, I was surprised to see that the number of vaccinations per day approached 900,000 per week on average from near the inauguration ceremony.

President Trump promised 20 million doses by the end of last year after the vaccine was released, but it was true that initially it was difficult to fill 100,000 times a day.

It was a desperate atmosphere to know at what time to inoculate over 300 million Americans at this rate.

President Trump, who was completely dismissed from state affairs after the defeat of the presidential election, avoided his own vaccination responsibility, blaming the governors for saying, ``The federal government developed and distributed a vaccine, but the state government could not immunize it.

To find out what happened in the meantime, I interviewed Oh Hyun-sung, a professor in the Department of Social Welfare at Arizona State University via video interview.

Professor Oh was a person who knew the atmosphere as he was actually conducting a corona diagnostic test for immigrants in the Arizona-Mexico border region and was preparing vaccinations for them.

I was able to hear a detailed explanation of why the US vaccination atmosphere has changed, centering on the situation in the Arizona field.

Professor Oh was the first to point out a problem that the federal government did not actively intervene in the early days of the vaccine.

When it comes to vaccination, the federal government was standing with arms folded behind it, explaining that it was very difficult for county or state governments to stand on their own.

It was analyzed that it was the first vaccine to be released and that the vaccination infrastructure was not properly established, which was a big reason for the initial confusion.

Dr. Deborah Bucks, who was the coordinator of the White House's Corona TF, also appeared on CBS last week and looked back at his devastatingly unsuccessful White House activities. I have described the cause of this.

It was not an exaggeration to say that the Trump administration pushed the state government into a state of struggle against all, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was not an exaggeration to administer the state affairs by giving the governor one more rice cake.

If you want to get the corona vaccine right away, you need to prepare a number of items from cryogenic freezers to syringes and protective equipment all at once.

However, Professor Oh pointed out that it took a long time for the local government, which has only a few human resources, to prepare the necessary supplies and personnel for these vaccinations, and that large-scale vaccinations were difficult to manage.

He also explained that the situation in which the US had extremely limited initial vaccination targets should also be considered.

It is said that the number of actual vaccinators was inevitably increased very little by opening very narrowly, starting with the on-site medical staff.

Then, as time passed, the number of vaccinations increased to school teachers, police, and the elderly over 65 years of age, and the number of vaccinations naturally increased.

(This part is inevitably the same in Korea at the beginning of vaccination. I think we should be patient and watch the number of vaccinations slowly increasing in the early stages, considering the US case.)

Professor Oh diagnosed that the recent explosive increase in vaccination can be found in the launch of drive-through large-scale playground vaccinations.

Arizona also opened a large playground and created a 10 or so sub-optimal vaccination line to begin vaccinating a large scale.

Arizona's initial vaccination rate wasn't high, but it's said to be catching up with other states as playground vaccinations come to life.

It is said that another playground will be opened as an inoculation site and vaccination using university buildings will begin soon. Then, the inoculation rate is expected to increase further.

New York has also opened a 25-sized Javit center on the playground to start large-scale vaccinations, and there are more and more such large inoculation sites in each region of the United States.

The problem is vaccine distribution.

During large-scale vaccinations at the playground, reservations are canceled due to insufficient vaccines, and confusion is occurring in which additional vaccination stations cannot be opened.

However, despite this confusion, it is increasingly felt that vaccinations have increased significantly from the beginning.

I can now easily find someone who has been vaccinated around me.

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President Trump, who had to

election right away, used to exaggerate the goal without evidence when talking about vaccines.

Already in September of last year, I had vowed to distribute 100 million doses of the vaccine by the end of the year, and there was a time when I expected that all Americans would be vaccinated by April.

The U.S., which is suffering from corona like a war, has only a vaccine, so it is more exaggerated, but as he was too preoccupied with the election, Trump itself became like a shepherd boy.

Since taking office at the end of last year, President Biden has promised to inoculate 100 million doses per day for 100 days.

At that time, it was a bold proposal that had to increase the performance five times because it was the time when I was inoculating 200,000 times a day.

However, without a sound rumor, the vaccination performance improved, and after taking office, we have already achieved the goal of 1 million times a day.

Because of this, even progressive newspapers have criticized President Biden for being too low on goals and obsessing with achieving them.

As if conscious of this, on the 26th, President Biden thought that 1.5 million vaccinations per day would be possible.

He said he was confident that in the summer, the United States will be on the road to mass immunity.

The New York Times also published a total of 1.5 million doses a day in the United States.

The newspaper even published a column stating that the Biden government should aim for 2 million doses per day.

It must be the Biden government that started in various worst conditions, but it is a blessing if it is President Biden's blessing that the corona situation remains only to get better if he puts the bottom and takes office, and if he does well.

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Biden contacted the vaccine makers and briefly mentioned that he had a promise that further production would be possible in a short period of time.

Pfizer, modder and vaccines combined to purchase 200 million more times, the contract has been disclosed.

These two vaccines were supposed to receive 400 million doses so far, but if you add 200 million doses to them, it will be 600 million doses.

If the U.S. population is set at 300 million, it means that the vaccinations for the entire population are finished once, twice each.

From spring, anyone who wants to be vaccinated can be vaccinated, so by the end of summer, we plan to finish all national vaccinations.

It has also announced that the vaccine will increase from 8.6 million doses per week to at least 10 million doses starting next week.

That means we're going to increase supply by at least 16%.

Even with the newly added amount, nearly 1.5 million doses per day are possible.

Moreover, according to CDC, there are about 20 million vaccines in stock that have not been vaccinated until yesterday.

To make it easier for the state to schedule vaccinations, it has said it will change the supply of vaccines from the current one-week notice to three-week notice.

This will minimize confusion in scheduling your vaccination.

President Biden has announced that he is preparing a large regional vaccination center, organized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and that he will begin vaccination in early February at a large pharmacy chain of more than 1,000 locations nationwide.

In the process, the State Defense Forces from building facilities to vaccinations were put on a massive scale and the federal government announced that it would cover all costs.

The budget for this large-scale vaccination alone is set at 20 billion dollars (22 trillion won) and is waiting for approval from Congress.

In addition, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines, which are expected to receive FDA emergency use approval, are likely to be on the market soon.

Then the US could be in a situation where the vaccine remains.

President Biden said he would like reporters to ask that there are too many vaccines and medical equipment left by the end of the summer, and he also said he wished that such a problem would arise.

President Biden said more than 400,000 Americans have already died from the coronavirus, and emphasized that the United States is in a wartime situation.

With the only alternative to vaccines, he expressed a strong commitment to attracting the souls of the federal government and sticking to them.

It is also true that the Biden administration is focused on this issue to the extent that it seems to have no interest in issues other than Corona.

In the next month or so, as the vaccine will take effect, the mood is expected to change significantly.

The biden government's vaccine sweep has been reported by US media as welcome.

The Trump administration has also criticized him for saying it was able to do this, but not.

However, as a Korean reporter, I am also worried about the US movement.

Securing vaccines with limited production is inevitably the same as a zero-sum game, so if one country takes too much, it will be affected by the spread of other countries.

Of course, it cannot be concluded that the amount of contracts from other countries will be changed to this additional contract from the United States, but it is true that we have to look anxiously.

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