Surging virus has Whitmer at odds with Biden

Mr. Slavitt said that the federal government had also offered to send Michigan extra supplies of monoclonal antibody treatments for people with Covid-19, and that it was sending more tests to the state and was helping to set up more test sites. He added that a team from the C.D.C. was working in Michigan, as were 140 new vaccinators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Ms. Whitmer, who spoke on Monday after touring a vaccination site in Ypsilanti, said she was grateful for the offer of additional therapeutics and personnel. But, she said, “we have been working incredibly hard to make sure we get what we need to get people vaccinated, and that includes lobbying for additional vaccines to come into Michigan.” Federal health officials made clear they would not be grabbing doses from some states to rush to hot spots like Michigan. That would not be feasible, in part because the administration would not be able to guarantee how well the retrieved doses were stored once delivered. “We’re not in a place, nor will we be, where we take supply from one state to give it to another,” Ms. Psaki said at her briefing on Monday at the White House.