The rise and fall of Philly’s mass vaccination clinic
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, Hayo. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's the Louisa back from the Washington Post. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, this is Beth Reinhardt of the Washington Post. |
| 0:12.0 | Glory, Arightani, over at the post. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm... |
| 0:15.0 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 0:19.0 | It's Thursday, February 18th. |
| 0:24.0 | Today, the rise and fall of a mass vaccination clinic in Philadelphia. |
| 0:29.0 | And why men need more friends. |
| 0:36.0 | During a five-day period last month in Philadelphia, nearly 7,000 people |
| 0:42.0 | received a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at a mass vaccination site. |
| 0:47.0 | Her breed was one of them. |
| 0:49.0 | You know, it was a pretty seamless process. |
| 0:52.0 | You know, I signed up and then after I got my first shot, |
| 0:55.0 | I was telling the world, like, here's where you go. |
| 0:58.0 | It all looked like a model of 21st century efficiency. |
| 1:02.0 | And it was run by this group, Philly Fighting COVID, |
| 1:05.0 | that had been doing testing and making PPE. |
| 1:08.0 | But then suddenly, the vaccination site was shut down by the city's health department. |
| 1:13.0 | Officials said that they had lost trust in the group. |
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