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Wednesday 27 January 2021
Biden administration to boost vaccine supply next week

Continued from Front available shots in the U.S.
haven't been dispensed
The administration has also isn't entirely clear. But many
promised more openness vaccination sites are ap-
and said it will hold news parently holding large
briefings three times a quantities of vaccine in re-
week about the outbreak serve to make sure people
that has killed over 420,000 who have already gotten
Americans. their first shot receive the
The setup inherited from required second one on
the Trump administration schedule.
has been marked by mis- Also, some state officials
communication and unex- have complained of a lag
plained bottlenecks, with between when they report
shortages reported in some their vaccination numbers
places even as vaccine to the government and
doses remain on the shelf. when the figures are post-
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Bi- ed on the CDC website.
den's brand-new director In the New Orleans area,
of the Centers for Disease Ochsner Health said Mon-
Control and Prevention, day that inadequate sup-
was herself flummoxed ply forced the cancella-
over the weekend in trying tion last week of 21,400
to describe current sup- In this Jan. 24, 2021, file photo, Dr. John Corman, the chief clinical officer for Virginia Mason first-dose appointments but
plies. "I can't tell you how Franciscan Health, holds a sign that reads “Need Vaccine” to signal workers to bring him more that second-dose appoint-
much vaccine we have," doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 as he works at a one-day vaccination clinic set up in an ments aren't affected.
Amazon.com facility in Seattle.
she told "Fox News Sunday," Associated Press In North Carolina, Greens-
describing the problem boro-based Cone Health
as a challenge left by the es on hand even after this days of their allocations doses distributed to states announced it is canceling
outgoing Trump administra- week's shipment. through a computer net- have been put in people's first-dose appointments for
tion. "And if I can't tell it to "I'm screaming my head work called Tiberius and arms. That is well short of 10,000 people and moving
you, then I can't tell it to the off" for more, Republican other channels, after which the hundreds of millions of them to a waiting list be-
governors, and I can't tell it Gov. Jim Justice said. they can specify where doses that experts say will cause of supply problems.
to the state health officials." The weekly allocation cy- they want doses shipped. need to be administered Jesse Williams, 81, of Reids-
On Monday, Florida Gov. cle for first doses begins on Deliveries start the following to achieve herd immunity ville, North Carolina, said
Ron DeSantis said the state Monday nights, when fed- Monday. and conquer the outbreak. his appointment Thursday
is "at the mercy of what the eral officials review data A similar but separate proc- The U.S. ranks fifth in the with Cone Health was
federal government sends on vaccine availability ess for ordering second world in the number of dos- scratched, and he is wait-
us" and can't meet growing from manufacturers to de- doses, which must be given es administered relative to ing to hear when it might
demand from residents. termine how much each three to four weeks after the country's population, be rescheduled. The former
Officials in West Virginia, state can have. Allocations the first, begins each week behind No. 1 Israel, United volunteer firefighter had
which has had one of the are based on each jurisdic- on Sunday night. Arab Emirates, Britain and hoped the vaccine would
best rates of administering tion's population of people As of Tuesday afternoon, Bahrain, according to the enable him to resume at-
vaccine, said they have 18 and older. the CDC reported that just University of Oxford. tending church, playing
fewer than 11,000 first dos- States are notified on Tues- over half of the 44 million The reason more of the golf and seeing friends.q
Judge bars Biden from enforcing 100-day deportation ban

President Joe Biden. living in the U.S. illegally. to focus on national securi-
U.S. District Judge Drew Biden promised during his ty and public safety threats
Tipton issued a temporary campaign to pause most as well as anyone appre-
restraining order sought deportations for 100 days. hended entering the U.S.
by Texas, which sued on The order represents a vic- illegally after Nov. 1. That
Friday against a Depart- tory for Texas’ Republican was a reversal from Trump
ment of Homeland Security leaders, who often sued to administration policy that
memo that instructed immi- stop programs enacted by made anyone in the U.S. il-
gration agencies to pause Biden’s Democratic pre- legally a priority for depor-
most deportations. Tipton decessor, President Barack tation. The 100-day mora-
said the Biden administra- Obama. It also showed torium went into effect Fri-
tion had failed “to provide that just as Democratic- day and applied to almost
any concrete, reasonable led states and immigration anyone who entered the
justification for a 100-day groups fought former Presi- U.S. without authorization
pause on deportations.” dent Donald Trump over before November. Texas
In this July 31, 2019, file photo, migrants return to Mexico, using Tipton’s order is an early immigration in court, often Attorney General Ken Pax-
the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses the Rio Grande river in blow to the Biden admin- successfully, so too will Re- ton argued that the mora-
Matamoros, Mexico, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. istration, which has pro- publicans with Biden in of- torium violated federal law
Associated Press posed far-reaching chang- fice. David Pekoske, the as well as an agreement
By NOMAAN MERCHANT the U.S. government from es sought by immigration acting Homeland Security Texas signed with the De-
Associated Press enforcing a 100-day depor- advocates, including a secretary, signed a memo partment of Homeland Se-
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal tation moratorium that is a plan to legalize an estimat- on Biden’s first day direct- curity late in the Trump ad-
judge on Tuesday barred key immigration priority of ed 11 million immigrants ing immigration authorities ministration. q