Lioke, what i got from work? Guy running covid testing sights is handing out handles of vodka to his employees instead of paying them money. I figured it must be a bigger operation than i realized. Lioke: It did surprise me that, you know, philly is an ed's an med’s town. The first vaccines had just arrived in philadelphia,. and the city announced that it was working with phily fighting Covid to launch the city's first mass vaccination clinic for health care workers. So this organization run by young adults will be handling philly's first vaccination center. That's right.
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.
Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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