This video from 60 Minutes (Nov 8th, 2020) is about many things related to the United States government's plan to distribution a vaccine. The "oh so American" name of this is Operation Warp Speed, because clearly time is of the essence. I'm not a medical doctor or a chemist so I don't want to focus on the creation of a vaccine, let's just imagine that a workable vaccine is in place. What I want you to consider is this: how would you get this vaccine to the American people? This is a logistics problem and it requires a geographic solution. In the video (right around the 1:55 mark), you will see Geographic Information Systems (GIS) being used as key tools to make more informed decisions (notice the variety of data layers being used to jointly to understand the process better). As the great geography educator Joseph Manzo said, "Geography cannot solve all of the world's problems; but no problem can be solved without Geography."
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