Updated
Jan 15, 2021
The Real Story On The Vaccine Rollout Is More Complicated Than You ve Heard
There are big problems and the pace of vaccination needs to pick up a lot, but we aren t the only advanced democracy in this situation.
Trying to figure out how COVID-19 vaccination is going in the U.S. is a lot harder than you might think.
There are, on the one hand, all those stories about problems across the country, whether it’s pharmacies throwing away doses because they can’t find people that fit eligibility criteria or it’s senior citizens struggling with online questionnaires to get appointments.
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Comment Despite an extraordinary day in Washington DC where, under President Trump’s urging, insurrectionists stormed the Capitol and temporarily halted the approval of his replacement, Joe Biden is still going to become president of the United States on January 20.
Perhaps more critically in terms of legislation however, Wednesday also saw the all-but-certain elections of two Democratic Senators in the state of Georgia, displacing two Republicans and handing effective control of the Senate to the Democratic Party.
That means that the same party controls both halves of Congress, albeit by very small margins, as well as the presidency, and that has huge legislative implications. It will become possible, in theory, for the Democratic Party to drive through policy decisions.
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