In December, as the first American received her first dose of a vaccine against coronavirus,

many of us felt a little glimmer of a much-needed feeling.

Hope.

But the widespread rollout of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines hasn't gone as smoothly

as many wanted.

The federal government has offered guidance and put some early plans in place, but the

reality on the ground is that each state faces its own set of challenges, and supply of

the vaccines is lagging way behind demand.

The Biden administration has made promises about the pace of vaccinations.

The vaccine.

I think with the grace of God and the goodwill of the neighbor and the Kriknot rising as

they all say goes, I think we may be able to get that to 150, about 1.5 million a day,

rather than 1 million a day.

But we have to meet that goal of a million.

President Biden has in part blamed the slow rollout on limited funding for state and

local governments and the lack of a federal game plan from President Trump, and Biden

has proposed plans to combat both of those challenges.

He set his administration plans to buy an additional 200 million doses of the two coronavirus

vaccines.

They've also promised more resources for state and local health departments, greater federal

coordination, and plans to set up mass vaccination sites.

And the administration has also pledged transparency.

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