Three Likely Steps Toward Biden's "100 Million Doses In 100 Days"

One immediate priority of the Biden administration will be to accelerate distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to meet the new administration's goal of staunching the impact of the pandemic in the U.S. While the Biden team has made clear in recent days that it will be taking a dramatically different policy course than its predecessor, we anticipate President-elect Biden's efforts to meet his goal of “100 million doses in 100 days” will include the following:

GREATER FEDERAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Much of the reason for the halting vaccine rollout so far can be attributed to the supply chain challenges integral to such a large undertaking—particularly in the “last mile” of transporting the vaccine from inventory storage hubs to the hundreds or thousands of locations where the vaccine is to be administered. While the Trump administration has been reluctant to have the federal government adopt an “end-to-end” role in the vaccine delivery process, the Biden