Well, unfortunately, in the last administration, the vaccination plan was mostly about providing and ensuring that there would be adequate supply of vaccine. That was clearly important, but it became clear when the new administration took over that the plan and the logistics were largely focused on making certain that the boxes of vaccine would be kept without temperature incursions and delivered via FedEx and UPS and all of those usual mechanisms.
It was good that it happened, but there was really not an adequate plan to vaccinate the American people. The initial plan relied heavily on pharmacy chains and some of the hospital systems, and I think they did the best they could, but especially in some of the low-income neighbourhoods across the U.S., they're pharmacy deserts, and there was no mechanism for vaccinating, especially in low-income neighbourhoods or even in a lot of rural areas.
I think that there the contribution of the federal government was to put a new plan in place in order to scale up vaccinations very rapidly. That evolved as well, because when the Biden administration took office, they said that they were going to deliver 100 million immunizations in 100 days.
That made sense, I think, in January, until we realized that the B.1.1.7 variant from the United Kingdom was accelerating as fast as it was. A number of us in the scientific community said, “Well, it's great that you made that commitment, but it's not adequate, and you're going to have to triple that.” That was I think one of the more impressive things about the administration in 2021: how they regrouped to triple the rate of vaccination. That's why we're doing so well. There was that all hands on deck....
We still have problems now, because we do have—