I won't tell you that it's gonna be your own

happy new year everyone thank you for tuning in to another episode of the

Bakari Solar's podcast. We're back. Just come into 2021. Don't, you know, move

anything. Just sit down and be quiet don't break anything let's just kind of

ease into this year and see what happens today we'll be interviewing my brother

Roland Martin to talk about the Georgia runoff in the news of the day to start the year

but before we get the

rolling I wanted to talk about something that's been concerning me around this

vaccine rollout. As many of you know both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines have been rode out primarily for

frontline health care workers and seniors in senior facilities. But you may not

know that while the vaccine has been produced and shipped across the country it's may not

actually getting into arms.

As of this recording, for example, 13 million doses have been distributed nationally,

but only 4.2 million, roughly 32% of first doses have been administered.

So, almost 70% of the vaccines that your tax dollars have bought are sitting in freezers in some parts of the country

but in short supply and others. In places like Chicago, Illinois, over 95% of the vaccine

has been distributed and administered.

But in Texas, parts of the state are at risk of doses going to waste.

In Florida, county health departments are reporting

that their phone lines are crashing from the volume of

callers seeking shots. But in Riverside County, California, almost half of health care workers

don't even want the vaccine. So plainly speaking, this is a mess.

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