Boxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch, Mississippi, on December 20, 2020. For months, Americans who despaired about the country’s coronavirus-suppression efforts looked desperately to the arrival of a vaccine for a kind of pandemic deliverance. And now here we are, nearly a year into the pandemic, making precisely the same mistake with the vaccine. There are probably some understandable, if maddening, reasons that we are not moving as swiftly as others to administer the vaccine. And, depending on local bureaucracy and storage capacity, perhaps many million doses will be set to expire.
