Photo: ReutersThe governors of several states accused the Trump administration on Friday of deception in pledging to immediately distribute millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses from a stockpile that the US health secretary has since acknowledged does not exist. The Washington Post reported on Friday that the federal government ran down its vaccine reserve in late December and has no remaining reserves of doses on hand. Pfizer said it has been holding on to second doses at the request of the federal government and anticipated no problems supplying them to Americans. "Operation Warp Speed has asked us to start shipping second doses only recently. As a result, we have on hand all the second doses of the previous shipments to the US," a company spokeswoman said in a statement.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 16, 2021 03:33 UTC