Philly’s Vaccine Distribution Mess
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🗓️ 8 February 2021
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The COVID-19 vaccine roll-out has been a mess across the country, but the failure has been particularly egregious in Philadelphia. The city entrusted a large part of its vaccine distribution to a start-up company run by a 22-year-old with zero medical experience. It wound up with a shuttered clinic and stolen vaccine doses.
Guest: Nina Feldman, health reporter for WHYY.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, we'll talk about this a lot afterwards, and we'll have questions and stuff. |
| 0:07.2 | Back in October, a group of do-gooders with big ideas met up on a rooftop in Philadelphia. |
| 0:13.2 | They were there to go over their plan to help vaccinate their city against COVID. |
| 0:18.1 | But this was also a young crowd, a bunch of 20-somethings. So it's not like it was all |
| 0:22.9 | business. Please drink the alcohol. There's a bar in the background that is kind of waiting. Once |
| 0:30.0 | the presentation's over, everyone's going to have a drink. I asked Nina Feldman, a reporter at the |
| 0:35.2 | local public radio station, to walk me through a recording of this meetup. |
| 0:39.9 | She says, the person to keep your eye on here is a guy named Andre Derotion. |
| 0:45.0 | He's the one at the front of the crowd. |
| 0:47.4 | And he is standing there with a big screen that a PowerPoint is being projected onto. |
| 0:54.9 | All right, everybody ready to party? |
| 0:56.9 | Derotion runs an organization called Philly Fighting COVID. |
| 1:00.5 | Their logo is a boxer with a face shield. |
| 1:03.5 | That is a rocky reference. |
| 1:05.7 | Derotion is also just 22 years old. |
| 1:08.7 | All right, everybody. So welcome once again to DeRotions 15. |
| 1:11.5 | That's the joke. |
| 1:12.3 | Go fuck yourself. |
| 1:14.1 | At the very beginning, he calls them Derotions 15, which I think is a reference to the 15 people |
| 1:18.5 | who are there. |
| 1:19.7 | So he's like, we're Oceans 11 for vaccines. |
| 1:22.7 | Yes, yes. |
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