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Explain It to Me

America's vaccine distribution needs a shot in the arm

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Education, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Umair Irfan joins Dara and Matt to discuss some challenges and obstacles to prioritization and distribution of the Covid vaccine, in the U.S. and elsewhere. Resources: White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration Reporter, ProPublica Umair Irfan (@umairfan), Science Reporter, Vox Credits: Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please make a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Contitions and excretions apply. I do think that Matt, you're selling yourself a little

1:01.9

short because I think you were actually the first person who I saw making it clear that

1:06.1

like, we should be so lucky to have demand outstrips supply for these. Let's make sure that

1:10.7

the supply is on lock and then we can figure, you know, and that the demand is high enough

1:14.2

and then we can figure out how to match those two. I was worried about cheating, you know,

1:18.2

but like not so much that the counter cheating measures would make it impossible to even do anything.

1:39.3

Hello, welcome to another episode of the weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias,

1:44.1

who are the publicist, Darrell Lindt and Vox's Umar O'Fan. We wanted to talk today about,

1:50.7

for one thing, it's good to be back back on the weeds. In the interim, while we've been on break,

1:56.2

vaccines have been approved and people have started to get vaccinated for COVID-19,

2:02.3

which is great. And yet, if you had been reading stories in December when they were talking about

2:08.0

20 million people, might be vaccinated by the end of the year, that has not come to fruition,

2:14.3

not even close. And we've even seen not just what I think was anticipated was, you know, it takes

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