Any Vaccine Tracking System Is Only as Good as the Data That’s Put in It

Over in The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum compares the current system of getting a vaccine to waiting in a long line for cabbage in the Soviet Union.

According to Bloomberg’s latest numbers, the U.S. has administered 36.6 million shots, or 63.8 percent of the available supply. That means that roughly 57.4 million shots have been manufactured and distributed, and 21 million are sitting around, waiting to be used, or they’re “lost,” stuck somewhere in the part of the supply chain after the states receive them.