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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
Kerri Miller and Marcheta Fornoff

As storms slow the race to vaccinate, will the spread of new variants speed up?

A woman administers a vaccine to a person sitting in a chair.
CentraCare Health nurse Amy McAnnay administers the COVID-19 vaccination shot on Feb. 5 at St. Benedict's Monastery in St. Joseph, Minn.
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Over 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz announced on Friday.

Vaccination rates were starting to ramp up again, but state health officials warn that severe weather in other states could slow down that progress.

Winter storms closed roads, froze power lines and ultimately delayed the delivery of 6 million vaccine doses across the country.

Even before the storms hampered vaccination efforts, health officials were racing against the clock to prevent new variants from spreading across the country.

Monday at 9 a.m., host Kerri Miller spoke with two experts about ongoing viral research and vaccine delivery.

Guests:
Angela Rasmussen is a virologist and an affiliate at Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security.

Deborah Fuller is a vaccinologist and professor of microbiology at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine.

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