“The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House.”
What PolitiFact found
The Trump administration planned to get the vaccines developed and then send them to locations chosen by states. States wrote their own plans, and they were responsible for setting up places to get vaccines into arms.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron Klain (chief of staff to President Joe Biden) made this claim around 24 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 January 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Ron Klain has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.