{"id":17710,"date":"2021-02-23T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17710"},"modified":"2021-02-23T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:00:42","slug":"after-billions-of-dollars-and-dozens-of-wartime-declarations-why-are-vaccines-still-in-short-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17710","title":{"rendered":"After Billions of Dollars and Dozens of Wartime Declarations, Why Are Vaccines Still in Short Supply?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachana Pradhan and Arthur Allen for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government has invested billions of dollars in manufacturing, used a wartime act dozens of times to boost supplies and yet there\u2019s still not enough covid vaccine on the way to meet demand \u2014 or even the government\u2019s own goals for national immunization.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden, in remarks at the National Institutes of Health this month, said the nation is \u201cnow on track to have enough supply for 300 million Americans by the end of July.\u201d But at the current rate of production, Pfizer and Moderna will miss their targets of providing at least 100 million doses each by the end of March, let alone 200 million more doses each has promised by July. Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/after-billions-of-dollars-and-dozens-of-wartime-declarations-why-are-vaccines-still-in-short-supply\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachana Pradhan and Arthur Allen for Kaiser Health News) The U.S. government has invested billions of dollars in manufacturing,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medical-technology","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17711,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions\/17711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}