I’ll understand if you wish this newsletter would move on from coverage of the vaccination effort and get on to more exciting topics such as whatever insanity Marjorie Taylor Greene uttered recently. (She’s the topic of three of the top four stories on Politico this morning.) But it is not understating it to say that the vaccination effort is the most important thing going on in the United States today. It is also the effort that President Biden and his administration have said is their most important task, and what they ought to be judged upon. On the menu today, why the vaccine distribution is bottlenecked, why pharmaceutical companies can’t simply make more vaccines quickly, and a revealing statistic about which medical workers are declining to get vaccinated right now.
Sorting Through the Vaccine-Distribution Bottleneck
Yesterday morning, I laid out how non-higher-risk Americans were unlikely to start getting vaccinated before May. Yesterday afternoon, health officials in the ...