Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/ShutterstockFor Teresita Batayola, landing doses of the COVID vaccine for her Seattle clinic is like chasing tickets to a hot concert or winning a golden ticket. She also put the hunt for vaccinations in starker terms: “We have people referring to this as The Hunger Games.”After Washington state expanded vaccine eligibility last month to include seniors ages 65 and up (and people over 50 in multigenerational households), Batayola tried several times to order doses for her nonprofit clinics, called International Community Health Services, which serve thousands of low-income residents, primarily refugees and immigrants within the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. “I’m a persistent person,” Batayola said. “I kept banging on doors with texts, emails, phone calls. That’s why the local public health jurisdiction worked to transfer some shots to us.”But at Overlake Medical Center & Clinics
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