America's vaccine distribution needs a shot in the arm
Explain It to Me
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:58.5 | 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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