The city of philadelphia handed over testing and then vaccination to a 22 year old grad student with little to know experience. Public health departments across the country have been systematically under funded for the past decade, says CNN's O canina Vargas. The hearing you can find more than this at vox dot com.
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.
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