United States | Here’s how

America’s vaccination roll-out will improve with practice

How one large medical system used 100% of doses made available to it

|BOSTON

ONLY EIGHT medical centres in the entire state of New York have managed to administer all the covid-19 vaccines they received. Cayuga Medical Centre, in upstate New York, is one such facility. It has used 100% of its vaccines—7,700 so far, about 700 each operational day—whereas the rest of the state has managed to administer only 77% of its supply.

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