Excerpt: "It's been two weeks since U.S. officials launched what ought to be the largest vaccination campaign in the nation's history. So far, things are going poorly."
A scientist works in the Moderna lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in February. (photo: David L. Ryan/Getty Images)
We Came All This Way to Let Vaccines Go Bad in the Freezer?
02 January 21
America did not sufficiently plan for how to get millions of people vaccinated.
t’s been two weeks since U.S. officials launched what ought to be the largest vaccination campaign in the nation’s history. So far, things are going poorly.
How poorly? Untold numbers of vaccine doses will expire before they can be injected into American arms, while communities around the country are reporting more corpses than their mortuaries can handle.
Operation Warp Speed has failed to come anywhere close to its original goal of vaccinating 20 million people against the coronavirus by the end of 2020. Of the 14 million vaccine doses that have been produced and delivered to hospitals and health departments across the country, just an estimated three million people have been vaccinated. The rest of the lifesaving doses, presumably, remain stored in deep freezers — where several million of them could well expire before they can be put to use.
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