Introducing: Half Vaxxed

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last year we brought you the story — part caper, part tragedy — of how Philadelphia tried to hand off its COVID vaccination program to a wannabe tech bro right out of college. We built on the work of reporter Nina Feldman and her colleagues at WHYY. Now, they've laid out the entire thing in a podcast of their own, called Half Vaxxed. It’s terrific. Funny in places, horrifying in others, and full of lessons.

We'll be back in a few weeks to start the next batch of Arm and a Leg episodes. Meanwhile, we hope you'll enjoy the first episode of Half Vaxxed.

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0:00.0	Hey there, we've got a new batch of arm and leg stories starting in a few weeks and
0:04.8	meanwhile I want to introduce you to one more show I think you're going to like.
0:09.5	You might remember last year we brought you the story of how Philadelphia tried to hand
0:12.8	off its COVID vaccination program to a wannabe tech bro right out of college.
0:18.0	It was part paper, part tragedy.
0:21.2	You might also remember our episode was built on the work of reporter Nina Feldman and
0:25.7	her colleagues at WHYY, Philly's public radio station.
0:29.4	They had reported that story in real time and exposed the whole wild disaster.
0:34.5	Well since then, Nina and her colleagues have taken the time to lay out the entire thing
0:39.6	in a podcast of their own called HAP VACTS.
0:42.5	It's terrific.
0:43.5	It's funny in places, horrifying in others and full of luck.
0:47.8	I'll catch you back here in a couple weeks.
0:49.5	Meanwhile, here's the first episode of HAP VACTS.
0:56.7	It was 8 a.m. on a chilly Friday and early January.
1:00.9	Inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, nurses scurried around in scrubs preparing
1:05.3	trays of syringes, TV cameras filed in and set up for their perfect shot.
1:11.2	Things were abuzz with excitement.
1:13.0	A mass vaccination site is now up and running in center city Philadelphia for healthcare
1:17.3	workers.
1:18.3	The site at the convention center opened this morning.
1:21.3	This was the launch of Philly's first mass vaccination clinic.
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