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Home / News / Business News / Amazon offers Biden help with vaccination immediately after Trump leaves
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Amazon offers Biden help with vaccination immediately after Trump leaves

Amazon offers Biden help with vaccination immediately after Trump leaves
Written by Nachiket Mhatre
Jan 21, 2021, 12:53 pm 2 min read
Amazon offers Biden help with vaccination immediately after Trump leaves

Amazon has offered to help Biden administration with COVID-19 vaccine distribution. In a letter signed off by the company's Worldwide Consumer CEO Dave Clark, Amazon offered assistance to Biden's ambitious goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans within the first 100 days of his term. Amazon didn't extend the same courtesy to the Trump administration, although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) greenlit the vaccine late last year.

Quid pro quo?
Amazon requests priority vaccination for its 800,000 employees

Clark promised to mobilize Amazon's 800,000 strong workforce for Biden's vaccination drive. The letter assured the newly sworn-in US President that the company will leverage their operations, IT, and communication capabilities to expedite the vaccine to 100 million Americans. Clark also used this opportunity to request President Biden to prioritize vaccination to Amazon's "essential workers" from the company's fulfilment and AWS data centers.

Biding time
When partisan politics supersede saving lives

Trump intended to vaccinate 20 million Americans after the FDA approved the vaccine late last year. Amazon, however, chose to sit on the sidelines and watch Trump fail, before contacting the Biden administration on the day it was sworn in. Further, Clark lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and FDA seeking priority vaccination for Amazon employees.

At loggerheads
Amazon's relationship with Trump administration had been tense

Amazon's decision to wait a month before offering to mobilize its massive infrastructure for vaccine delivery is perplexing. It isn't immediately clear why Amazon chose to wait for Trump to exit the White House before helping, but the tense relations between it and the Trump administration have been apparent for the last few years.

Still didn’t help
Bezos had been in touch with Trump for pandemic assistance

Meanwhile, Amazon claimed to have been in touch with the Trump administration over the past nine months while assisting the vaccination efforts. This included "extensive talks" with the FDA about coronavirus testing. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos himself was reported to be cooperating with the White House with respect to pandemic response. This makes its month-long failure to offer vaccine distribution help quite strange.

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Growing up, I had a penchant for disassembling appliances; most of which couldn’t be reassembled successfully. My parents didn’t approve. Now, I leverage my lifelong pursuit of dissecting gadgets to write about tech. My parents still don’t approve.
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