Five past Coronavirus vaccine drives and how they worked
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Last Updated: Feb 01, 2021, 06:17 AM IST
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Scientists developed vaccines less than a year after COVID-19 was identified, a reflection of remarkable progress in vaccine technology. But progress in vaccine distribution is another story.
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Some answers can be found in the successes and failures of vaccine drives over the past two centuries.
Scientists developed vaccines less than a year after COVID-19 was identified, a reflection of remarkable progress in vaccine technology. But progress in vaccine distribution is another story.
Questions that arose in vaccine rollouts decades ago are still debated today. How should local and federal authorities coordinate? Who should get vaccinated first? What should officials do about resistance in communities? Should the hardest-hit places be prioritized? Who should pay?
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Pharmacist Diana Swiga fills a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site at the Bronx River Houses Community Center, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Published February 01. 2021 12:05AM | Updated February 01. 2021 12:18AM
Paulina Firozi, The Washington Post
The pace of vaccinations appears to be slowly ticking up amid concerns about how the emergence of more transmissible coronavirus variants will affect the U.S. s efforts to crush the pandemic.
Saturday marked the third day in a row that more than 1.5 million coronavirus vaccine doses were given in the United States, according to a Washington Post tracker, and the 12th straight day that more than 1 million shots were given.
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Barbara Washington, 65, receives a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Friday in an Alamodome drive-thru line.Photos by Jessica Phelps / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Medical staff welcome motorists at the COVID-19 vaccination drive through at Delmar Stadium on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in Houston. The site is operated in a partnership between the city and United Memorial Medical Center.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Recently vaccinated people wait for 15 minutes after getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at HOPE Clinic in Houston on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less