Fauci: “I think we just have to assume that it’s going to get worse”

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🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that recent holiday travel could make January even worse than December when it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic adding the surge has just gotten out of control in many respects. U.S. officials promised 20 million vaccine shots in American’s arms by the end of December but only 2.1 million vaccines have been administered so far. President-elect Joe Biden says President Trump's plan to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine is "falling far behind." Kathleen Sebelius is the former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and she’s also the former Governor of Kansas. She tells AC360 there’s never been a federal plan at any point during the pandemic with testing, PPE and now vaccinations. Plus, sources tell CNN that Trump has been in a sour mood at Mar-a-Lago, spending an increasing time behind closed doors and is angered by the renovations, which were overseen by his wife. Anthony Scaramucci was the White House Communications Director. He joins AC360 to react to the Trump’s final days as President and says the last 30 days have been the worst of his presidency. Guests on December 29, 2020 were Kathleen Sebelius and Anthony Scaramucci. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A very good evening to you, Jim Sudo here sitting in again for Anderson.
0:07.2	And as a country, here we go again, just as with testing, just as with protective gear,
0:14.0	just like with prevention against the coronavirus, the Trump administration at the end of the
0:18.2	day is leaving one more vital piece of this effort up to the states.
0:23.6	The president laid today making it plain in a tweet from Mar-a-Lago that when it comes
0:28.2	to getting the COVID vaccine into the arms of those who need it most, it's not his problem.
0:34.4	It's up to the states, he says, to distribute the vaccines once brought to the designated
0:39.5	areas by the federal government.
0:42.3	Read that as not his problem.
0:44.7	So even as he rightly takes pride in the remarkable federal effort to develop not one but
0:49.0	two vaccines in record time with more yet to come, he is not taking responsibility for
0:54.3	the fact that promises like these just aren't being kept.
1:00.4	Overall in the month of December between the two vaccines, the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccine,
1:05.0	we expect to have immunized 20 million of our American people and keeping 20 million
1:12.7	doses for their second immunization a few weeks later.
1:16.5	That was the promise two weeks ago, 20 million people immunized.
1:21.3	Then just four days later, the language listened for this changed and the goal posts moved.
1:29.1	We remain a track to allocate 20, around 20 million doses of vaccine to the all jurisdictions
1:36.1	by the end of December with distribution of those doses pushing into the first week of
1:41.7	January.
1:43.1	Okay, that's not the same thing.
1:45.5	From 20 million people immunized to 20 million doses allocated, not shipped allocated.
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