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Along a busy corridor in New Brunswick, New Jersey, dozens of workers gather inside temp agencies, where they wait for an informal network of vans to shuttle them to warehouses.
Many who are milling around here on French Street became eligible for COVID-19 vaccines more than a month ago, but few have secured appointments. One woman couldn’t afford to miss a shift. Another worried the side effects would make her too sick to work the next day, and 68-year-old Ramon Rosario said frankly, he didn’t know where to go. He qualified back in January as a senior citizen, but without a computer or steady internet access, he hasn’t been able to book an appointment.