Officials Clarify Military Role In Coronavirus Vaccination Amid Wariness-Roll Call
President Donald Trump has often touted the role of the military in distributing a COVID-19 vaccine, but health officials close to the process who are concerned about public distrust are taking pains to say the federal government won’t actually be handling vaccines. The president said at the final presidential debate that the distribution of a vaccine would be swift because he’s “counting on the military.” But Paul Mango, a spokesman for Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to develop vaccines, clarified the next day: “It is extremely unlikely that anyone from the government will touch a vaccine, whether that’s loading a truck, unloading a truck, moving dry ice or actually injecting the vaccine prior to Americans getting it.” Roll Call, 11/05/2020
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