Prognosis

Sluggish Vaccine Campaign Raises Specter of U.S. Dysfunction

Trump administration to miss year-end goal of 20 million shots
Federal officials pledge a faster pace of inoculations

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By Angelica Peebles

December 30, 2020 at 8:32 PM UTC

Updated on

December 31, 2020 at 12:29 PM UTC

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U.S. health officials acknowledged that a Covid-19 immunization campaign is crawling out of the starting gate, raising the prospect that the nation’s all-in bet on vaccines could be afflicted by the same dysfunction that hobbled other measures to contain the pandemic.