{"id":30533,"date":"2021-01-08T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30533"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:21:02","slug":"biden-to-quickly-release-nearly-all-vaccine-doses-in-shift-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30533","title":{"rendered":"Biden to quickly release nearly all vaccine doses in shift from Trump\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lhqqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmzwqmzq_bzqpggflfypqpdpjqczf.html?a=&amp;b=36035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lhqqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmzwqmzq_bzqpggflfypqpdpjqczf.html?a%3D%26b%3D36035&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1610234019675000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGT94yQh_9QvP1FyG0AeYbWTS3Rkg\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0plans to release almost all vaccine doses immediately, a spokesman said Friday, a change from the Trump administration\u2019s strategy of holding half of the supply in reserve for second doses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President-Elect believes we must accelerate distribution of the vaccine while continuing to ensure the Americans who need it most get it as soon as possible,\u201d Biden spokesman TJ Ducklo said in a statement. \u201cHe supports releasing available doses immediately, and believes the government should stop holding back vaccine supply so we can get more shots in Americans&#8217; arms now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has been holding back half of the available doses to ensure there is enough supply for everyone who is getting a first dose to later get a second dose as well. But the Biden transition said it is confident there will be enough manufacturing to ensure enough supply for second doses.<\/p>\n<p>A group of eight Democratic governors also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fygrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgldqgrdqy_bzqpggflfypqpdpjqczf.html?a=&amp;b=36035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fygrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgldqgrdqy_bzqpggflfypqpdpjqczf.html?a%3D%26b%3D36035&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1610234019675000&amp;usg=AFQjCNExmMhh2cLDLOUJlEOy1yEFPLS0Pg\">wrote to<\/a>\u00a0the Trump administration on Friday asking them to immediately release the doses held in reserve. But the Trump administration on Friday pushed back on that idea and noted that not all of the doses already distributed have been actually administered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0plans to release almost all&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30534,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30533\/revisions\/30534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}