America Shouldn’t Play Favorites With Vaccines

A health care worker vaccinates a man with the COVID-19 vaccine in Pasadena, Texas, on April 30. Cecile Clocheret/AFP via Getty Images

April 30, 2021, 4:16 PM

The United States is at an inflection point in its COVID-19 vaccine policy. Less than five months from that momentous first shot into the arm of a health worker in Queens, New York, supply is soon set to exceed demand in the United States itself. Vaccine production, however, plows full steam ahead at a rate of 14.5 million doses per week.