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Actually, the claim was that 20M doses would be available, not administered. And just over 11M have been distributed, with 2.5 days remaining in the year. That's pretty good considering that quote was from three weeks ago.

We can always do better, but I'm shocked at how well this has gone over the last month.

I’m not. At this rate it will take 8 years to fully vaccinate.

There’s no reason to expect it’ll continue at this rate.

20M is the number they switched to after failing to meet their estimate from 3 months ago. In October, HHS Secretary Azar said that Operation Warp Speed would deliver 100 million doses by the end of the year.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

Yes. The pandemic has far from peaked and the plans and projections are overly optimistic.