Systemic change, indeed.

I can’t help but compare the struggle to connect people with vaccines here in the United States to reports I’m getting from my friends in the UK, which has a unified national health care system. (The NHS)

While the UK struggled with its initial covid-19 response, vaccine rollout is going remarkably well. Not only have they vaccinated a larger proportion of their population, but the NHS is able to set distribution priorities and ensure minority groups are not left out.

All they had to do was engage their existing networks and set things rolling. By comparison, our “system” is chaos.

Will covid-19 finally convince us to create a real health care system?