Los Angeles Officials Not Getting 3-Week Vaccine Projections Promised By President Joe Biden - Deadline

In January, President Joe Biden promised to provide state and local health officials a three-week window into how many vaccine doses were on the way.

So while Biden promised last month that state and local officials would have a three-week window into their vaccine allotments to allow for site planning and appointment scheduling, one important local official says she doesn’t even have a one-week window.

Gavin Newsom on Wednesday seemed quite clear how many doses would be received the following week, putting the state’s total at 1.3 million doses, slightly up from last week.

To date, the county has administered about 1.5 million first doses and some 400,000 second doses.

Given the delta between the two and the supply problems, adding another 1.8 million people to the eligibility roster could sow confusion as the county will likely continue prioritizing second doses before first doses wear off.

That is unacceptable.” Obviously, the city is not getting Biden’s promised three-week window on coming vaccine allocations.

“That’s one reason why last week we announced that the federal government will be providing a continual three-week window in the vaccines that will be shipped.”.

The county has the capacity for 500,000 appointment slots this week, according to an official statement, however there are only enough doses to distribute less than half that; a little over 211,000 appointments

That means Angelenos not only have to crawl multiple websites and cross reference to find the closest vaccination location, they also have to determine which of those locations actually has doses available

He revealed Wednesday that the state expects 3 million doses per week by March 1 and 4 million per week by April 30, which would flood the aforementioned network with vaccine