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Fauci Suggests Slow Pace of US Coronavirus Vaccinations to Pick Up

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Vaccinations against the coronavirus are off to a slow and
   chaotic start in the United States, but the country's top infectious
   disease expert held out hope Sunday that the pace will soon pick up.

   "We are not where we want to be, no doubt about it," Dr. Anthony
   Faucitold ABC News' "This Week" show."We need to catch up."

   So far, the U.S. has distributed 13 million doses oftwo vaccines
   produced by drug makers Pfizer-BioNTechand Modernathroughout the
   countrybut only 4.2 millionshots have ended up in the arms of
   Americans.

   "The vaccines are being delivered to the states by thefederalgovernment
   far faster than they can be administered!" President Donald Trump said
   on Twitter.

   But Fauci, director of theNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious
   Diseasesand the chief medical adviser to President-elect Joe Biden,said
   that the pace of inoculating people -- chiefly health care workers and
   elderly people in nursing homes in the initial stages of the
   vaccinationcampaign-- is picking up.

   "There is a glimmer of hope," Fauci said,with 1.5 million shots
   administered in the last three days.

   He added, "We've got to get interaction between the federal government
   and the(country's 50)states, a realpartnership."

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