Dr. Fauci, who will serve as President-elect Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, attributed the slow rollout partially to it’s beginning during the holidays.
“I think it would be fair to just observe what happens in the next couple of weeks. If we don’t catch up on what the original goal was, then we really need to make some changes about what we’re doing. But right now, I think we just need to give a little bit of slack — not a lot, but enough to say, well, we’re past the holiday season, now let’s really turn the afterburners on,” he told NPR.
He added that the goal is to get the pace up to 1 million vaccinations per day.
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