Listen: How Operation Warp Speed Became a Slow Walk

KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal appeared on Diane Rehm’s “On My Mind” podcast on NPR to discuss the bottlenecks that have prevented doses of precious covid-19 vaccine from making it from drugmakers’ factories into patients’ arms. It didn’t have to be this way, she explains.

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<h1>Listen: How Operation Warp Speed Became a Slow Walk</h1>
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			January 7, 2021		</time>
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