Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is Joel Zinberg. Dr. Zimberg is a senior fellow at the

Competitive Enterprise Institute and an associate clinical professor of surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital.

He's a native New Yorker who served for two years as general counsel and senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisors in the Executive Office of the President, where he specialized in health policy.

He's been a contributor to City Journal for several years now, and we're excited to have him back on the podcast.

His latest piece for us, which just posted this week on the website, is called End COVID Now.

He also has a very nice, sharp piece in our forthcoming issue of the magazine called The Path to Better Days.

Joel was actually the last guest we were able to interview physically in our studio last March at the outset of the pandemic that has dominated our lives for many months now.

Joel, thanks again for joining us.

Great to be here.

As you write in this new piece, end COVID now.

The United States has distributed more than

20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines so far, the two approved vaccines.

But as everyone knows, the rollout of getting these vaccines administered has been distressing,

to put it mildly.

Can you give our listeners a broad idea of what's been going on? It's been reported today, for example, that the Trump administration

is looking to somehow expedite the process. So what's been going on is that the

there are two approved vaccines, the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine.

They have been purchased by the federal government, which is now distributing them to states.

And the states are supposed to undertake the administration of the vaccines.

And as you referenced, there's been a huge disparity between the number of vaccines distributed

and the number of vaccines administered.

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