The U.S. is stumbling out of the gate in getting the COVID-19 vaccine distributed in 2021, as a more contagious variant of the virus spreads around the country.
On Monday, PBS NewsHour interviewed Dr. Bob Wachter, the head of the department of medicine at UCSF, about his call for a delay in administering the prescribed second round of vaccine shots to those who have already received an initial dose, then using the extra supply to give a first shot to more people. Wachter and Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, laid out their case for the plan in an op-ed for The Washington Post last weekend.