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President Joe Biden falsely claimed during a CNN town hall on Tuesday night that his administration did not have a vaccine to work with when he came into office, saying, “It’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have
when we came into office, but a vaccinator, how do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?”
“What we did, we got into office and found out the supply, there was no backlog, I mean, there was nothing in the refrigerator, figuratively and literally speaking,” Biden claimed. “And there are 10 million doses a day
that were available. We’ve upped that in the first three weeks that we were
in office to significantly more than that, we’ve moved out, went to the
Pfizer and Moderna and said, can you produce more vaccine and more rapidly?
And not only agree to go from 200 to 400, then they agreed to go to 600
million doses.”
“So if end of April, excuse me, the end of July, they’re available to
actually get them in the arms of people who want them that will take what, a couple more months?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked.
“Well, no, a lot will be being vaccinated in the meantime. In other words,
it’s not all of a sudden 600 million doses are going to appear,” Biden answered. “And what’s going to happen is it’s going to continue to increase
as we move along. And we’ll have we’ll have reached 400 million by the end of May and 600 million by the middle of by the end of July.”
“It’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but a vaccinator, how do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?”
Biden continued. “So you need the paraphernalia, you need the needle, you
need the mechanisms to be able to get it in, you have to have people who can inject it in people’s arms.”
The first dose of the Pfizer vaccine was given on December 14, and the first dose of the Moderna vaccine was given on December 22 — a month before he was inaugurated on January 20, 2021.
WATCH:
Joe Biden falsely claims “we didn’t have [the vaccine] when
we came into office”
https://t.co/XZc21RsWbJ pic.twitter.com/2s0vnbpEcG
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 17, 2021
Just two days after Biden took office, Bloomberg News reported that the U.S. was almost already on track to meet Biden’s goal of 100 million vaccinations
in 100 days.
The report said:
In the week Biden was sworn in as president, nearly 983,000
shots a day were administered on average over the seven days
ending Friday, according to data from Bloomberg’s Vaccine
Tracker. The most recent three days topped a million doses. …
Pressed on the 100-million-dose goal on Thursday, White House
press secretary Jen Psaki explained the math behind the
administration’s thinking. She said that under Trump, 17
million doses had been administered in the first 38 days, for
an average rate of less than 500,000 a day, and Biden’s team
hoped to double that.
Bloomberg’s data show that the rate has increased substantially
since the first weeks of the rollout. A more ambitious plan
would be to double the current rate of vaccinations—not the
average rate during the early phase of vaccine distribution.
That’s what some Republicans have called for.
Watch:
Joe Biden got his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on
January 11, which was 9 days before he entered the White
House.
What a bizarre lie he just told on national TV. pic.twitter.com/PyzyU857KY
— Caleb Hull (I'm With the CCP Don't Ban Me) (@CalebJHull)
February 17, 2021
Left-wing fact-checkers rushed to Biden’s defense, claiming that his remark
was “a typical Biden gaffe.”
“It was a verbal stumble, a typical Biden gaffe, as he had already mentioned
50 million doses being available when he took office,” Washington Post fact- checker Glenn Kessler wrote. “Ex Trump officials should especially cool the outrage meter, as it just looks silly.”
It was a verbal stumble, a typical Biden gaffe, as he had
already mentioned 50 million doses being available when he
took office. Ex Trump officials should especially cool the
outrage meter, as it just looks silly.
https://t.co/HFjH01lXgH
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 17, 2021
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale also rushed to Biden’s defense, writing: “Biden had said just prior that there were ‘only’ 50 million vaccine doses when he took office. I’m looking into that claim (and a bunch of other claims Biden made tonight), but he clearly wasn’t trying to claim the vaccine did not
exist at all under Trump.”
Biden had said just prior that there were "only" 50 million
vaccine doses when he took office. I'm looking into that claim
(and a bunch of other claims Biden made tonight), but he
clearly wasn't trying to claim the vaccine did not exist at
all under Trump.
https://t.co/2EtKDWyR7o
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 17, 2021
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