How Badly Is Vaccination Going?

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Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We were supposed to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of the year. We’ve fallen well short of that. Should we be worried? Jim and Katherine are joined by Juliette Kayyem, a former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security who ran intergovernmental efforts like the one behind the vaccine rollout. She explains what’s going on, what the problems have been, and why we shouldn’t be too concerned (yet). They’re also joined by a listener named Craig seeking advice on a tough situation: when can you travel to see an ill family member? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jim.
0:05.0	Hi, Catherine.
0:07.0	Hey.
0:08.0	Happy New Year.
0:10.0	Happy New Year.
0:11.0	When we last talked, it was like, Yay, winter solstice, which you were really excited about,
0:16.0	and the vaccines are coming.
0:17.8	Things are just like, the worst is over.
0:20.6	And then in the interim couple of weeks, it feels like the vaccine rollout has gone not well.
0:27.0	This is just for me sort of scanning news reports. What's going on with the vaccine?
0:32.0	Hmm. We were hearing these targets pretty widely
0:36.7	that we would get tens of millions of people vaccinated by the end of the year. I think there was a target at the end of the year was 40 million back in October,
0:47.3	and then that came down to 20 million, and ultimately we got to 3 million people?
0:52.1	3 million. And that's just one shot right yeah which three million people are
0:57.4	half vaccinated which I mean yes that's a lot but like how did we get that far
1:02.0	yeah it's less than 1% of the population
1:04.0	it's amazing and yet it's also that could seem like the trajectory is
1:09.1	significantly altered if we're you know. Yeah if we going at that pace I I think I saw some you
1:14.2	know tweet or something that was like at this pace it'll take a hundred years to
1:18.1	vaccinate you know something yeah I mean that's terrible that's probably not accurate but like it would take
1:23.9	a long time whatever the tweet it would alter this idea of I know Biden's
1:29.3	administration has not to getting a hundred million people in the first hundred
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