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The federal government is not inclined to ship extra vaccine supplies to Michigan to combat the state's severe surge in cases.

The federal government is not inclined to ship extra vaccine supplies to Michigan to combat the state's severe surge in cases, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

"When you have an acute situation, an extraordinary amount of cases like we have in Michigan, the answer is not necessarily to give vaccine, the answer is to really close things down," Walensky said at a White House COVID response briefing.

"If we tried to vaccinate our way out of what is happening in Michigan we would be disappointed that it took so long for the vaccine to work, to actually have the impact.".

Andy Slavitt, the White House senior COVID adviser, said shifting vaccine supplies "to play Whac-a-Mole isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out.".

set a one-day record on Saturday by administering 4.6 million vaccine doses, White House senior COVID adviser Andy Slavitt said Monday.

More than 237.79 million vaccine doses have been distributed in the U.S