White House turns to Silicon Valley for help with COVID vaccine launch
A White House spokesperson said officials were speaking with several large companies
The Biden administration is in talks with Amazon and several other Silicon giants Valley to help roll out COVID-19 vaccines across the country. Spokesman Kevin Muñoz told Politico that officials are “consulting with many companies, including Amazon,” to help distribute medical supplies.
Muñoz added that companies with “technical and logistics experience” could be used to help “Americans get vaccinated more efficiently and more fairly.”
Other companies likely to be involved include Google, which has reportedly offered free ad space to public health bodies, and Airbnb, which could help leverage its real estate network. the more antagonistic relationship between Biden and Silicon Valley Biden has spoken out against Amazon’s tax practices, supports the creation of unions and has proposed reforms to Section 230, the fundamental law that underpins the Internet, and suggested that the launch of the vaccine Mutually beneficial would help mark a kind of restart in the relationship.
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This is not the first time Amazon has offered help to the US, doing so both during the last president and at the end of last year.
On December 16, 2020, Amazon’s Dave Clark wrote a letter to Dr. Jose R. Romero, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. In it, Clark said that Amazon’s 800,000 employees “should get the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible.”
In his January 20th letter to the White House, Clark reiterated his wish to see Amazon employees vaccinated “as soon as possible.” He added that Amazon was ready to deliver vaccines at its facilities and “ready to act quickly as soon as vaccines become available”.
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A Jan. 25 NPR story said Amazon was able to deliver 2,000 vaccines from a pop-up clinic it set up in Seattle in a single day. Local health officials praised the effort, which could be repeated across the country.
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