To take stock of the state of the technology race, this report examines the progress made by the U.S. and China in each key emerging technology over the past 20 years.

In late January, at the peak of America’s COVID-19 outbreak, and nearly two months after the first vaccine was approved, Graham Allison and research assistant Hugo Yen found that hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses were being left unused on shelves due to sluggish rollouts by state governments....By simplifying the array of vaccination statistics provided by the CDC into clear metrics, Allison and Yen developed a COVID-19 Vaccine Report Card to help citizens easily understand their states’ performance in the vaccine rollout and better hold their state governments accountable. 

This brief report offers a citizen’s guide to grading your own state’s performance—or calculating you and your family’s chances of being vaccinated in the near future.

The state is lagging badly. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Among the 50 states in the union, on three of the four key performance measures, Massachusetts is currently earning an F. 

The Technology Factsheet Series offers a brief overview of the technical aspects of salient technologies and their policy relevance for Congressional members and their staff. 

The Technology Factsheet Series offers a brief overview of the technical aspects of salient technologies and their policy relevance for Congressional members and their staff.