Azar, Govs At Odds On States’ Readiness To Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dorothy Mills-Gregg / October 20, 2020 at 6:13 PM
States already have all the resources they need to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine when it’s time, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Monday (Oct. 19), contradicting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and governors , who are asking the administration for more details on what role states will play in distributing a vaccine and what funding will be available to them. “They do not have a need for additional funding for the rollout of a vaccine program,” Azar said...


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