race to vaccinate millions of Americans is off to a slower, messier start than public health officials and leaders of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed had expected.
Overworked, underfunded state public health departments are scrambling to patch together plans for administering vaccines. Differences in how counties and hospitals administer the vaccine are leading to long lines, confusion and jammed phone lines.
Experts say the federal government hasn’t done enough to help states meet their goals for getting doses injected into arms.— New York City police have deployed bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks ahead of Thursday's iconic ball drop.