The Army general responsible for allocating COVID-19 vaccines across the U.S. apologized for miscommunicating the number of doses to be delivered in the first stages of distribution.
Army General Gustave Perna says he failed and is now adjusting and moving forward. The Department of Health and Human Services says there is a difference between manufactured vaccines and doses that are ready to be released. Perna said he cited numbers of doses he believed would be ready
In a phone call with reporters Saturday, Perna admitted he was the one who approved the number of doses. "I am the one who approved forecast sheets. I'm the one who approved allocations. There is no problem with the process. There is no problem with the Pfizer vaccine. There is no problem with the Moderna vaccine," he said.Â
The general continued by saying the government is now on track to get approximately 20 million doses to states by the first week of January. The doses will be a combination of the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.Â
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