Oregon’s Brown , and I believe Washington’s Inslee, announced that they’d delay the vaccinations until State resources had reviewed the hurried testing of the Trump vaccine. Miraculously, they accomplished that in a couple of days. I guess they couldn’t use the nine months they waited for the vaccine to figure out a distribution scheme.
It is not the "Trump vaccine," by any stretch. President Trump cleared the way for the clinical trials to take place and subsequent data to be reviewed by the FDA sooner than they normally would. Hence, here we are today with a vaccine.
There is no purpose for Inslee and his "team" to review any data, because they would be duplicating the effort of the FDA. I doubt Inslee's team has any of the expertise to review and issue guidance in such matters anyway, and what if they disagreed with the data? Is Washington going to reject a drug product that's been FDA-approved? What kind of precedent does that set?
This is government bureaucracy and political one-upsmanship at its worst.