Here comes the vaccine army, with new-to-the-needle volunteers
Elise Young, Bloomberg
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Cars lined up along the roadway to get a vaccination in Wantagh, New York on Jan. 14.Bloomberg photo by Al Bello
U.S. taxpayers have spent at least $12.4 billion for private companies to develop covid-19 vaccines. Now they re turning to an army of hypodermic-wielding volunteers, some with little practical experience, to help immunize 330 million Americans.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is relaxing rules to allow podiatrists, dentists and pharmacy students to give shots. In Colorado, Governor Jared Polis is asking for help from chiropractors and optometrists. Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey are recruiting health-care retirees to fill shifts at stadiums, vacant department stores and other spaces repurposed as government-run vaccination megasites.
Health issues carried weight on the campaign trail ctmirror.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ctmirror.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
IT is a strange thing that whilst politics is undoubtedly a team sport it often appeals to those who are most desperate to stand out from the crowd. At its extremes that paradox throws up politicians who find it impossible to work as part of a larger unit and to compromise in order to make collective progress. Often the problem is not with policy but with personality, in that their opinion of themselves is somewhat higher than that held by others (George Galloway is a case in point). So, eventually, trailing a fiery cloud of rhetoric as they depart from their original political home off they go to set up their own show, claiming they haven’t left their party, their party has left them.
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