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It Took Federal Power To Bring The End Of The Pandemic Within Sight

Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine is pictured at Rady Children's Hospital before it's placed back in the refrigerator in San Diego, California on December 15, 2020. (Photo by ARIANA DREHSLER / AFP) (Photo by ARIANA DREHSLER/... Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine is pictured at Rady Children's Hospital before it's placed back in the refrigerator in San Diego, California on December 15, 2020. (Photo by ARIANA DREHSLER / AFP) (Photo by ARIANA DREHSLER/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS

March 10, 2021 11:40 a.m.

The Biden administration is set to announce a plan to secure 100 million more doses of J&J’s COVID vaccine, enough doses to cover the entire U.S. population, including children.

It gets us across the finish line in a big way, and tells an important story about what a starkly different response to the pandemic over the past year could have looked like.

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