NEW YORK – Efforts to vaccinate Americans against COVID-19 have been stymied by a series of winter storms and outages that have hobbled transportation hubs and highways in parts of the country not used to extreme cold weather.
That has created challenges for carries such as UPS and FedEx, which have been on the front lines packaging and shipping the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines around the country.
Both UPS's hub in Louisville, Kentucky, and FedEx's key hub in Memphis, Tennessee, have been affected. Meanwhile, several states have complained about vaccination delays and have had to cancel appointments.
The fact that 6 million doses have languished in airport hubs for several days during a once-in-a-century pandemic has raised questions about