A nurse receives one of the first Covid-19 vaccines in the US in New York City on December 14, 2020. | Mark Lennihan/Pool via Getty Images

The US was supposed to vaccinate 20 million people in December. It didn’t get to 5 million.

America’s rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine is off to a messy start, with signs the country is repeating the same mistakes it made with coronavirus tests and protective equipment for health care workers.

President Donald Trump’s administration had projected 20 million people would be vaccinated by the end of December. The US is at 4.8 million first-dose vaccinations as of Tuesday, missing its 2020 goal by more than 75 percent.

Meanwhile, Israel has shown the world that a large vaccine campaign can go much quicker. The country became the first to vaccinate 15 percent of its population in recent