In response to reports that the Trump Administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs will discard extra vaccine doses, Protect Our Care’s Coronavirus War Room Director Zac Petkanas released the following statement:
“After passing on securing vaccine doses for up to 250 million Americans, the Trump Administration seems determined to make the vaccine distribution process even worse. They are now choosing to deliberately throw away life-saving ‘extra’ vaccine doses rather than administer them to American veterans or health care workers – or the thousands of Americans dying from the disease every single day.
“Like every other unconscionable decision they’ve made, the intent can only be to sabotage a crucial element of the pandemic response right before President-elect Biden takes over, putting them in a much more difficult place to clean up their messes.
“The Trump Administration must immediately stop deliberately endangering the lives of America’s veterans and start administering all available vaccine doses for the duration of their time in office.”