General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for the Defense Department's Project Warp Speed.(Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) The Army general in charge of getting COVID-19 vaccines across the United States apologized on Saturday for "miscommunication" with states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution."I failed.
I’m adjusting. I am fixing and we will move forward from there," Gen. Gustave Perna told reporters in a telephone briefing.Perna’s remarks came a day after a second vaccine was added in the fight against COVID-19, which has killed more than 312,000 people in the U.S.