Follow Feb. 18, 2021 Late in the evening on the last day of 2020, hundreds of people arrived at the coronavirus vaccination site in Jerusalem’s Arena indoor stadium. They arrived without warning and without having made appointments for their inoculations. Across the coronavirus-ridden city, the rumor had spread that even those not entitled, by age, to be vaccinated could get the shot because there was a vaccine surplus. This was at the start of the vaccination campaign, when only the over-60 population was being vaccinated through the health maintenance organizations by prior appointment. Nevertheless, on this particular day, a large number of people showed up at the Arena in the hope that they would be able to get the first of their two doses by 10 P.M., closing time, even though there was nothing to indicate that this would be the case. On the contrary: The nurses implored them to go home and said repeatedly that there were no surplus doses. But no one budged. “People simply didn’t believe the nurses,” a person who was there recalls. “And why should they? It didn’t make sense. How could a nurse know whether everyone who had an appointment between 9 and 10 P.M. would actually show up?”