In order to pivot to vaccines, filly fighting covet had to cancel their entire testing operation. Meanwhile, phillyfight and covet is still vaccinating people. There were not enough for the number of people who wanted them. The first week end of vaccinations turned into a second; then that third week end was when everything kind of came crashing down.
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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