Ep 1. ‘Shooting for the Heavens’

08/25/21 • 23 min

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Half Vaxxed: The Rise and Fall of Philly Fighting COVID

Philly Fighting COVID was a young startup that pledged to vaccinate Philadelphia. What did the city’s health department see in this group in the first place? A “move fast and break things” approach from young people highly motivated to help in a crisis.

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This is the story of a 22-year-old with no health care experience who talked his way into a COVID-19 vaccine distribution deal he thought would make him millions — only to have his company implode as thousands of people awaited vaccinations. How did he end up with so much power? And was he a grifter, or just an opportunist working the American health care system the way it’s designed?

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Ep 2: Sprezzatura

Andrei Doroshin, Philly Fighting COVID’s CEO, had a history of dressing up amateur projects as professional endeavors fueled by a “fake it ‘till you make it” philosophy. He ran the company like a high school clique and former staffers describe a volatile leader prone to being crude.