The Fyre Festival of vaccine rollouts

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The city of Philadelphia put an opportunistic 22-year-old in charge of its vaccine rollout. Nina Feldman of WHYY’s Half Vaxxed podcast explains how it went just as badly as you’d expect. Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.4	We talk a lot about vaccines on the show.
0:55.1	Lately, we've talked mostly about how lots of Americans are refusing to get them and
1:00.1	how at this point, you can basically walk into any vaccination site in the country and
1:04.9	they'll just give you one.
1:06.0	But remember when a vaccine was like a golden ticket.
1:09.5	Remember when all people talked about was their appointment or their anticipation of their
1:14.9	appointment or which shot they were going to get and what that meant.
1:19.2	Today's episode is set during that bygone era in Philadelphia, a city that is near and
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