Minnesota Health Official Says Vaccine Rollout Hasn’t Been As Bad As It Seems

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Minnesota has administered about 39% of the vaccine doses it has received. About 1.5% of the state’s population has been vaccinated.





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The fact that 20 million people have not been vaccinated in the U.S. by the end of 2020, is that just sort of a PR problem at this point for the federal government rather than a public health problem?

I do think actually it’s more of a PR problem. You know, one of the big lessons learned that we learned from H1N1 was to under-promise and over-deliver. And I feel like we’re in a place where there were perhaps promises made of what could be administered. And that was probably not a realistic time frame.

We are getting vaccine into arms. Our systems are all committed to making sure that people are getting vaccinated. And I think once we’re getting the vaccine on a regular basis, that will make a huge difference.

Sam Gringlas and Justine Kenin produced and edited the audio interview.