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Glacial pace of the U.S. inoculation campaign raises questions about priorities

By PBS NewsHour
| January 13, 2021

Operation Warp Speed may have produced effective COVID vaccines in record time, but administering them has been another matter. Just 9 million of the more than 25 million doses distributed have been given out, according to the CDC. But the Trump administration on Tuesday made big changes to the program.

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