From the very beginning, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar,

he's been bullish about a COVID vaccine, channeling this what, me worry, energy.

Like back in October, he went on Meet the Press, got grilled about rising coronavirus caseloads, and pushed back by saying, listen, we'll have a vaccine soon.

Look, the Pfizer CEO just announced that by the end of November, he thinks they may be submitting an application for a vaccine.

Ten months after this pandemic hit our shores. This is incredible historic news, Chuck, that we ought to be celebrating.

Back then, he was hinting that a hundred million doses could be available by the end of the year.

But within weeks, his numbers had started to change, even though his energy hadn't.

Because of President Trump's founding and leadership of Operation Warp Speed, even as we face

daunting epidemiological trends around the country, we have reasons for optimism.

This is testimony Azar gave on Capitol Hill, back before Thanksgiving.

By the end of December, we expect to have about 40 million doses of these two vaccines,

available for distribution, pending FDA authorization.

So within a few weeks, an estimated 100 million doses had been slashed to 40 million. And by December,

Azar was rising downward again, predicting 20 million doses by the end of the year.

Then vaccine distribution began.

Right now, you heard in those earlier pieces, many governors complaining about their vaccine allotments being cut back.

That's when Azar went on Good Morning America from quarantine to revise his estimates one more time.

Can you break through that logjam? Is it going to get fixed?

So there's nothing actually to fix.

There was some misunderstanding from certain of our

governors. So we will have 20 million doses available for vaccination during this month.

Do you hear what Azar did there? He was asked, are we going to have 20 million people vaccinated

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