It's one of our oldest and most powerful technologies.

And arguably, it's the most powerful technology

humankind is ever invented.

It's allowed us to eradicate smallpox.

It's allowed us to come near the elimination of polio.

And now we're seeing dramatic reductions of childhood,

ancient childhood infectious scourges all over the world.

So it is an extraordinary powerful tool.

Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

Well, with pod listeners, as I speak to you right now, deep in my body,

there are antibodies being produced to fight the novel coronavirus COVID-19,

because I was able to get a vaccination through a callous standby for a pharmacy

that basically has to make sure they administer all their Pfizer doses at the end of the day.

The deal with them, it's like defrosting hamburger meat, right?

You take out of the freezer and got to grill those up that day.

So we were able to just a text list.

This is actually a fairly large site.

And so they actually need to have a bunch of numbers,

because they want to always err on the side of too many people.

And we got a standby message saying, if you come on over,

so I'll get an hour and an hour and we were able to get vaccinated.

And I feel really lucky.

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