With millions of Americans waiting for their chance to get the coronavirus vaccine, a lucky few are getting bumped to the front of the line as clinics scramble to get rid of extra, perishable doses at the end of the day. “One of the nurses said I should go buy a lottery ticket right now,” said Jesse Robinson, outside a Nashville, Tennessee, clinic this week where the 22-year-old was picked from a 15,000-name list for a shot. David MacMillan was grabbing ingredients for a coconut chickpea dish at a Giant grocery store in Washington when a woman in a lab coat from the in-store pharmacy came up to him and his friend.
How some are getting bumped to the front of the line for COVID-19 vaccinations
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I. With millions of Americans waiting for their chance to get the coronavirus vaccine, a fortunate few are getting bumped to the front of the line as clinics scramble to get rid of extra, perishable doses at the end of the day. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)AP
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Bernard Condon, Candice Choi And Matt Sedensky
In this image from video, Jesse Robinson shows the spot on his arm where he received his COVID-19 vaccination, in Nashville, Tenn. With millions of Americans waiting for their chance to get the coronavirus vaccine, a fortunate few are getting bumped to the front of the line as clinics scramble to get rid of extra, perishable doses at the end of the day. (AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall) January 22, 2021 - 3:26 PM
Fortune struck one man in the bakery aisle at the supermarket. Two others were working the night shift at a Subway sandwich shop. Yet another was plucked from a list of 15,000 hopefuls.
Former straphanger Dr. Anthony Fauci had a special message just for MTA workers: get the COVID vaccine.
But with 97 percent of the state s vaccine supply now exhausted, both the city and the state are on pace to run out of vaccines.
At a Friday briefing, Gov. Cuomo said the state would run out of the allocations it has received so far by the end of the day.
Cuomo said deliveries of the week six allocations, about 250,400 doses, had begun, but those deliveries are delivered by the federal government by various means and they arrive at different times throughout the week.
Lucky few in US hit COVID-19 vaccine jackpot for rare extra doses
By Bernard Condon, Candice Choi and Matt Sedensky - Associated Press
Fortune struck one man in the bakery aisle at the supermarket. Two others were working the night shift at a Subway sandwich shop. Yet another was plucked from a list of 15,000 hopefuls.
With millions of Americans waiting for their chance to get the coronavirus vaccine, a lucky few are getting bumped to the front of the line as clinics scramble to get rid of extra, perishable doses at the end of the day.
It is often a matter of being in the right place at the right time.