We can wait a decade

The Trump people are, of course, failing dismally to get the vaccines out there. No biggy, it’s only 4000 deaths per day.

The Trump administration’s Covid-19 vaccine distribution program needs a major shot in the arm because at the current rate, it would take almost 10 years to inoculate enough Americans to get the pandemic under control, a jarring new NBC News analysis showed Tuesday.

On the upside, by then the population will be a lot smaller.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading epidemiologist, told CNN on Tuesday, “Well, we certainly are not at the numbers that we wanted to be at the end of December.”

The Trump administration’s Covid-19 testing czar, Dr. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health and human services for health, told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday that the reported 2 million shots given already is “an underestimate.”

But he agreed that the government won’t meet the goal of inoculating 20 million people before the New Year.

That’s ok. No hurry. The longer it takes the fewer arms there will be to jab, so it works out well.

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