{"id":49254,"date":"2021-01-16T02:07:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T09:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-governor-says-we-were-lied-to-about-vaccine-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:46:41","slug":"colorado-governor-says-we-were-lied-to-about-vaccine-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-governor-says-we-were-lied-to-about-vaccine-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado governor says \u2018we were lied to\u2019 about vaccine plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8303c21-469f-45ac-8a11-b3e96471c25f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"A COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Gov. Jared Polis on Friday said he was \u201cshocked\u201d to learn that Colorado will be receiving far<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were lied to,\u201d Polis said bluntly. He said he was told by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Vice President Mike Pence that an increase in doses was coming.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reported on Friday that the nation\u2019s vaccine reserves had already been exhausted when the Trump administration vowed to release them and push out more doses.<\/p>\n<p>Polis, a Democrat, says Colorado was expecting to receive 210,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine next week. \u201cNow we find out we\u2019ll only get 79,000 next week,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m shocked we were lied to and there is no national reserve,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Polis said he learned the news during a Friday morning phone call with Army Gen. Gustave Perna, who, as the chief operating officer for the federal government\u2019s Operation Warp Speed, is in charge of logistics of vaccine distribution. He said it won\u2019t alter Colorado\u2019s vaccine distribution timelines because the state was already being conservative in its outlook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is it\u2019s gross incompetence,\u201d Polis said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to attribute a motive of vengeance. I\u2019m going to say gross incompetence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2021\/01\/15\/colorado-vaccine-distribution-slowed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2021\/01\/15\/colorado-vaccine-distribution-slowed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado expected to receive 210,000 doses next week; \u2018we\u2019ll only get 79,000\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87549,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49254\/revisions\/87549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49254"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}