The vaccine reserves to be released do not exist. There seems to be a real question of supplies for a second shot.
When Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed, according to state and federal officials briefed on distribution plans. The Trump administration had already begun shipping out what was available beginning at the end of December, taking second doses directly off the manufacturing line.
“But it also meant there was no stockpile of second doses waiting to be shipped, as Trump administration officials suggested this week.”
Vaccine reserve Trump administration vowed to release doesn’t exist, dashing hopes of expanded access