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Originally published on December 17, 2020 2:09 pm The fight against COVID-19 entered a new phase this week as American health care workers started getting vaccinated — the first in what will be a massive effort. Science writer Ed Yong of The Atlantic says the coming months will usher in the most complicated immunization program the U.S. has ever attempted. "It's going to be a slow process, and there are a lot of possible roadblocks in the way in terms of producing the vaccine, distributing it, allocating it," Yong says. "Don't think of the vaccine as a light switch — that the minute it ...

Listen 50 min MORE Cathy Vasquez, a clinical research nurse at Inspira Medical Center Vineland, holds a sign that says "I got the shot because I trust the science," after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination in Vineland, N.J., Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Photo by Adam Monacelli/The Daily Journal via Imagn Content Services, LLC LA, San Diego, and Riverside counties have run out of ICU space at their hospitals. COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are still ballooning. Given the devastation, it’s hard to appreciate how quickl...

Dec. 18, 2020Coronavirus MORE Cathy Vasquez, a clinical research nurse at Inspira Medical Center Vineland, holds a sign that says "I got the shot because I trust the science," after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination in Vineland, N.J., Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Photo by Adam Monacelli/The Daily Journal via Imagn Content Services, LLC Southern California has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. LA, San Diego, and Riverside counties have run out of ICU space at their hospitals. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are still ballooning....

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. It's astonishing that scientists were able to develop vaccines for a virus that wasn't even identified a year ago. This week, American health care workers started getting the first COVID vaccine to be approved in the U.S. Also this week, the FDA approved a new rapid test that you can take at home and get results in about 20 minutes. My guest, Ed Yong, has a new article in The Atlantic about the science that led to developing COVID vaccines in record time, the flawed science that helped lead to misguided policies and the lessons that can be applied to futur...

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