Listeners, every Thursday night during President Biden's first hundred days in office, I'm hosting a series of call-in specials called America, Are We Ready?

And we've been having such good discussions with our guests and with callers from across the country that we want to share them with you on this podcast feed.

So here's this past Thursdays, America, are we ready?

I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios. This is a Saturday special.

It is day number nine of the Biden presidency.

America, are we ready for his plan to fight the pandemic?

Let's talk about it this hour.

This is America, Are We Ready, from WNYC in New York,

our Thursday night call-in series for the first hundred days of the new administration.

Good evening, everyone. I'm Brian Laird from

WNYC. And good evening from WAB in Atlanta. I'm Rose Scott. Now we're opening the phones this hour

to talk about President Biden's plan for the pandemic and other COVID-19 news. This week,

the president announced plans to have enough vaccine for every American by the end

of this summer. But here's something else, hopefully to get a lot more out to the states in the next

three weeks. Yes. And remember that time frame, folks, three weeks. Biden is promising three

weeks notice about how much vaccine each state will receive. And that's because people have been so frustrated

by having vaccination appointments, but then having them canceled because the expected supplies

weren't ready to be delivered. And Brian, it's the news that keeps on giving another piece of

COVID news from today. Now, this so-called South African variant has been found in two folks in South Carolina,

and we're told they did not leave the country, and they didn't even know each other.

So that variant is here, and we'll talk about what that means.

And still to be resolved, stark disparities that are only now coming to light between whites and people of color who are actually receiving the vaccines.

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