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Slack.com slash DHQ. I only had one friend in the class and she knew how to ski, so she

was not patient enough to let me do the bunny slopes. On the one and only time on the

next up from the bunny slopes, not only did I not stop at the end of the slope, but I

hit the ski lodge. Oh wow, that's not good. In fairness, when I say I hit the ski lodge,

only my skis hit the ski lodge. At that point, I was on my back with my knees like under

me. Yeah, since I don't ski anymore, you can die.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network. I'm

Matthew E. Glacias here with Hermann Lopez, ProPublica's Darrell Linde. We're going to talk today about

vaccines, which we talked about a little bit a few weeks ago, but we know a bit more now.

The situation has changed a bit more. The rollout seems to be going a little bit faster than

it was previously, but still well behind the kind of optimistic operation warp speed forecasts

that we had had last fall. Hermann, I mean, you've been writing about this here. What's

going on? Why is this so much slower than they said it was going to be?

I would say it's going a little better than it was. We're now at around 1.3 million

vaccinations a day, which is decent pace, not what a lot of people would like, but a decent

pace. I think so far what we've seen for most of the past few weeks are problems in the

last mile of the distribution chain, essentially, which is where vaccines have to go from storage

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