The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in America will test a deeply divided society, and not just because of mistrust in vaccinations, Atul Gawande, MD, told New Yorker Editor David Remnick.

Dr. Gawande, longtime contributor to the New Yorker and member of President-Elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force, described the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines as the most challenging undertaking of the past year.

“We have deployed north of 120 million coronavirus tests in the course of eight months. This is going to be 330 million vaccinations, done twice, and hoping to accomplish it in the course of six months or less,” said Dr. Gawande, who is also a surgeon at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School.

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