After accomplishing the astonishing feat of funding, testing and approving highly effective vaccines against COVID-19 in less than a year, Operation Warp Speed has failed badly in its other main objective: vaccinating 20 million Americans by Jan. 1.
Two weeks into January, the federal government is a little more than halfway to the goal, a performance that has troubled health experts and jeopardized hopes of returning to some degree of normal life by summer, or even fall.
The benchmark of vaccinating 20 million by Jan. 1 "was critical to achieving herd immunity by the summer in the U.S," said Rasmus Bech Hansen, founder and chief executive officer of London-based Airfinity, a company that gathers and analyzes global scientific data.
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