Fauci calls for extra resources as US misses Covid vaccination target

The top infectious disease expert in the US, Anthony Fauci, called on the federal government on Thursday to deploy more resources to vaccinate Americans after the country missed its goal to get 20 million people inoculated by the end of the year.

As overworked, underfunded state public health departments scrambled to administer the vaccines, some senior citizens waited overnight to receive their first dose in Florida.

“We would have liked to see it run smoothly and have 20m doses into people today, by the end of 2020, which was the...