> Difficulty scaled with population density. How much of that was due to government dysfunction, though? I live in a quite dense urban area. For me, getting t

> Difficulty scaled with population density. How much of that was due to government dysfunction, though? I live in a quite dense urban area. For me, getting the vaccine was a walk in the park. There was a single nation-wide website to register your vaccination slot, and it was administered in a factory-like workflow. The government literally hired out a large event space and turned it into a single smooth operation, calling up whatever med student, military doctor, and retired nurse they could find. There was a single plan from the national level, and it was implemented by the pre-existing government structure which normally handles childrens' vaccines and the medical part of disaster response. It seems the US did basically the opposite thing, with dozens of government entities all delegating responsibility downwards, and relying on ad-hoc implementation by commercial entities. That might work fine in a normal situation, but it's not exactly a surprise that it breaks down during a disaster. Stuff like this is literally what the government is for!