“Now is not the time to change course on vaccine allocation. There are tens of millions of people across the country in each and every state and county who have not yet been vaccinated, and the fair and equitable way to distribute the vaccine is based on the adult population by state, tribe, and territory.”

– White House COVID-19 Response Team coordinator Jeffrey Zients, in refusing to surge available vaccine doses to Michigan where COVID is spreading rapidly while the rest of the country is seeing case counts fade.