atul gawande. so let's do this, well could come to the daily social distancing show. >> from trevor's couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. >> trevor: let's kick things off with the super bowl. it is the world's championship of a sport only played in america. and yesterday's game was one for the record books. >> this morning tom brady is running out of fingers for his ring, capturing his record 7th super bowl at age 43. >> i think we knew this was going to happen tonight, didn't we? >> the bucs didn't just winnings they trampled last year's champs, the can sags city chiefs 31-9. the weekend also electrifying on stage, singing some of his biggest hits in a slickly produced halftime show. using masked dancers to keep things covid friendly. >> trevor: hell yeah. what a great halftime show. and it looks like the weeknd finally found a use for all that toilet paper he has been hoarding. and how about tom brady winning his

atul gawande.ter for "the new yorker" who is helping vaccine distribution efforts at venues like fenway park. we talked about that, his latest reporting on coronavirus, and what the outlook is. >> dr. atul gawande, welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> great to be here. >> trevor: you are coming to us from fenway park, one of the many stadiums and arenas that are going to be used as vaccination sites around the country. how has the rollout looking. america has been in an interesting space where it seemed like everything is going well, then there weren't enough vaccines and too many in some places, what does it look like on the ground. >> i'm part of the consortium that has been running vaccine operations to scale at gillet stadium, fenway park, reggie louis track and field in roxbury, and those have escalated. we had to start at a few hundred a day, we're tapped 5,000 across all of these sites per day. and that will just keep on scaling upward. and so i think that our problem approximate

gawande iso a stf mazine.est issue, he visited one north dakota town when it was suffering a terrible outbreak, and also a very public fight over the public health protections meant to contain it. he joins me now. dr. gawande, great to have you back on the "newshour". your company in a sense was created to step into the breach, initially over testing, now over vaccinations. when we look around nationally, some states have done well, many have really struggled with this. do you have a good sense as to why this initial stage has faltered so much? >> first of all, everybody was late to planning. this showived part of the planning process months ago. states were coming forward asking for that planning process but it really didn't get underway until after thanksgiving. we got involved to enable mass vaccination at gillette stadium, fenway park, reggie lewis track and field here in boston, and the challenges really were that the planning only got underway maybe the week before christmas for enabling this kind of mas

gawande. he set up gillette stadium and fenway park.m and women's hospitals and new york staff writer. his piece is one north dakota community hit hard by the covid crisis good morning good to see you today. >> great to see you, becky. >> why don't we start with the mass vaccination sites you set up how do you think things are going so far and where do you think the problems are >> we've had a gradual start with planning really only starting around christmas to get them launched, but at this point we're up past 5,000 shots a day across our two sites and we're basically seeing across the country mass vaccination sites that have helped us get to the point we're at four times the vaccination rates a day. 1.5 million shots a day. >> that's great news >> it is that will continue to climb. what clearly is the challenge is the mass vaccination sites are not everywhere there are major community holes where we're not reaching enough people and have to have added solutions, including new sites but also creative solutions to bringing people in. >>

gawande is channeling what is dissonant in the public domain about our existing public policy at the state level, across all 50 states, where we're telling people to double mask, minimize their time in grocery stores. and yet indoor dining is open in 48 states. schools are open with variable mitigation efforts. ventilation is not a top priority per the guidance released recently. and there is concern. especially when you think about the b1-17 variant mentioned. that was identified in the united kingdom. we need to be humble. we need to think about testing and ventilation and all the strategies we've been preaching about as we open up society because we all want normalcy. but he's right, as for ramping up vaccination, we don't think we'll reach herd immunity until mid-july and we need to keep cases down here. that's high-quality masking and minimizing your time in public. that's wise public policy that's consistent across the line so we keep cases down. >> yeah, indeed, as we reported here this week. in europe where they are in another lockdown, the countries dealing with these varian

atul gawande is a surgeon and professor at the harvard chang school of public health. at your max capacity, what is your hope for how many people you will be able to vaccinate over all? >> we will definitely be over 5,000 a day, and we'll go north of there as much as we can. >> reporter: back in december, he spotted trouble. the covid-19 vaccines had been developed in record time, but there was no playbook to administer them quickly. >> to be honest about it, it has been all breakthrough and no follow through. >> reporter: many people are confused about how to sign up, where to go, and states have been scrambling to scale up capacity. he saw a way to help, so he picked up the phone. >> i contacted bob and jonathan kraft a week before christmas. >> reporter: the owners of the new england patriots. he explained how he and a team of partners had scaled up covid testing early in the pandemic. >> we saw people couldn't get tests, hospitals couldn't bring it forward, and we created a partnership that was all about being the contractor who could bring this to scale. >> report