, Columnist
We’ve Had Ten Months to Plan. Why Are We Muddling Through Vaccination?
Chaos in the early days of the pandemic was understandable. It’s far harder to grasp why we didn’t prepare better for mass immunization.
Rollouts have been slow, preparation uninspired.
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Covid-19 exposed all the flaws of both national and international governance. The World Health Organization struggled. Too many countries, even those supposedly best prepared for a pandemic, flailed and failed to grasp lessons from each other’s experiences, at the cost of 2 million lives and trillions of dollars.
Has the world rectified those weaknesses? A vaccination campaign of record size is the first opportunity to at least partly assess that, and the global results are not as encouraging as they should be.