政府官员予以回击，坚称这是对不断接受和运送新剂量的滚动系统的又一误解。
联邦政府一直在储备一些第二剂药物，但不断向各州发放，这样人们就可以按时进行第二次预约。
卫生部长说:“我们将释放我们所有的供给给你订购，而不是保留第二剂。”阿扎尔本周早些时候在给州长的电话中宣布。
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卫生与公众服务部部长亚历克斯·阿扎尔在一次关于手术的新闻发布会上发言
白宫还呼吁州长们将资格扩大到医疗保健服务65岁以上的任何人。
“目前这不是供应问题。实际上，我们今天储备的疫苗比各州要求管理的疫苗还要多，我们想把它清除出去，”副总统迈克·彭斯在同一个电话中告诉州长，美国广播公司新闻获得了这个电话的音频。
但当剂量没有大幅增加时，结果是可以预见的——医院停止接受新的预约，惊慌失措的居民想知道，如果没有更多的疫苗注射，他们为什么有资格接种疫苗。
“州长们被@HHSgov反复告知有一个战略储备疫苗华盛顿州长杰伊·因斯利在推特上写道:“本周，美国人民被告知它将被释放，以增加疫苗的供应。”。
“现在看来，没有储备存在。特朗普政府。必须立即对这种欺骗行为负责。
俄勒冈州州长凯特·布朗补充道，“这是一个全国性的骗局。俄勒冈的老年人、教师和我们所有人都依赖于俄勒冈联邦储备局向我们发放疫苗的承诺。”
俄勒冈州卫生局长帕特里克·艾伦在接受美国广播公司采访时说，由于政府的声明，州官员计划在1月23日将可用性扩大到65岁以上的任何人，以及必要的工作人员。
现在，他们不会了。
艾伦谈到阿扎尔时说:“我希望部长没有那样说，让我们让很多人对我们现在无法见面抱有希望。”。
同样，科罗拉多州州长贾里德·波利斯(Jared Polis)表示，联邦政府的声明使该州相信，下周将增加21万剂，但现在只有7.9万剂。
“我很震惊我们被骗了，而且没有国家保护区，”波利斯在推特上说。
一名熟悉疫苗剂量推广后勤的官员表示，各州应该知道，自12月27日以来，每周都会发放第二剂疫苗。因此，当阿扎尔谈到“全部供应”时，他指的只是800多万种疫苗。
根据疾病控制和预防中心的数据，政府已经发放了3100万剂疫苗，已经发放了1200万剂。绝大多数的注射都是首次注射。
这位官员说:“这不像是有一个大仓库储存了所有的第二剂药物。”。
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俄勒冈州州长凯特·布朗在马里恩县和塞勒姆拜访国民警卫队成员
另一名不愿透露姓名的政府官员表示，截至周五，各州仍有约900万人在系统中，尚未用尽可订购的供应。
但纽约州长安德鲁·科莫(Andrew Cuomo)表示，当联邦官员呼吁各州将资格扩大到养老院和医疗保健工作者之外时，造成了损害。政府官员说，他们的目标是让各州知道，他们可以给更多的团体剂量，以加快推广，这样就不会浪费任何东西。
“他们的所作所为就像打开了资格的闸门，700万人蜂拥而至:‘我想要疫苗。我现在就要。“我被告知我有资格，”科莫说。
“整个洪水必须通过注射器。所有这些体积，它必须穿过针尖，字面上和象征性地，”他说。
Governors angrily accuse Trump administration of misleading states on vaccine supply
State governors and health officials angrily lashed out at the Trump administration on Friday after learning its promise to release the nation's "entire supply" of vaccine doses would result in only a modest bump to their stockpiles and wouldn't be nearly enough to cover the seniors thatfederal officials said should now be eligible.
Administration officials pushed back, insisting it was yet another misunderstanding about a rolling system that is continually accepting and shipping out new doses.
The federal government had been holding some second doses in reserve, but was releasing them to the states on a continual basis so people could make their second appointments on time.
"We're releasing the entire supply we have for you to order, rather than holding second doses," Health SecretaryAlex Azarannounced earlier this week in a call to governors.
The White House also called on the governors to expand eligibility beyondhealth careworkers and nursing home residents to anyone over 65 years old.
"This is not a supply issue at this moment in time. We actually have more vaccine today, in reserve, than has been ordered by states to be administered, and we want to clear that out," Vice President Mike Pence told governors on the same call, of which ABC News acquired audio.
But when a significant boost of doses didn't materialize, the result was predictable -- hospitals stopped taking new appointments and panicked residents wondered why they were eligible for the vaccine if more shots weren't available.
"Governors were told repeatedly by @HHSgov there was a strategic reserve ofvaccines, and this week, the American people were told it'd be released to increase supply of vaccine," tweeted Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
"It appears now that no reserve exists. The Trump admin. must answer immediately for this deception," he added.
Oregon's Gov. Kate Brown added, "This is a deception on a national scale. Oregon's seniors, teachers, all of us, were depending on the promise of Oregon's share of the federal reserve of vaccines being released to us."
Patrick Allen, Oregon's health director, said in an interview with ABC News that because of the administration's announcement state officials planned to expand availability on Jan. 23 to anyone over age 65, as well as essential workers.
Now, they won't.
"I wish the secretary had not said that and caused us to get a lot of people's hopes up that we're now not going to be able to meet," Allen said of Azar.
Likewise, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said the federal announcement led the state to believe it would get 210,000 more doses next week, but it will now only get 79,000.
"I'm shocked we were lied to and there is no national reserve," Pollis tweeted.
An official familiar with the logistics of the rollout of the vaccine doses said states should have known that second doses have been going out weekly since Dec. 27. So, when Azar was talking about "the entire supply" he was referring to only 8 million more vaccines.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the administration has shipped out 31 million doses and 12 million doses have been administered. The vast majority of those shots are first doses.
"It's not like there's a big warehouse where all of the second doses have been stored up," said the official.
Another administration official, who also agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, said the states still haven't exhausted the supply available to order -- with some 9 million still in the system as of Friday.
But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested the damage was done when federal officials called on the states to expand eligibility beyond nursing homes and health care workers. Administration officials said their goal was to let states know they can give the doses to more groups to hasten the rollout and so nothing is wasted.
"What they did was like opening the floodgates of eligibility, and you have a rush of 7 million people: 'I want the vaccine. I want it now. I was told I'm eligible,'" Cuomo said.
"And that entire flood has to go through a syringe. All this volume, and it has to go through the point of a needle, literally and figuratively," he said.
