Earlier this month, the Biden administration said it was alarmed to learn that the Trump administration had left it with no vaccine distribution plan whatsoever. “There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch,” a person familiar said at the time, with another adding that the reaction upon learning they would have to start from “square one” was: “Wow, just further affirmation of complete incompetence.”
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