In an interview on Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that the Biden administration is starting from scratch to develop a national vaccine distribution plan, challenging last month’s comments from the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, and receiving push back from former Trump administration officials.
“You know what I explained to the mayors, there’s no stockpile, right? It’s, in many ways—no stockpile of vaccines. Right? So, we’re looking at this, there was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations. We were leaving it to the states and local leaders to try and figure it out,” Harris told “Axios on HBO” Sunday.
