Rapid vaccine rollout puts Puerto Rico in global vanguard 2 minutes read San Juan, Dec 15 (efe-epa).- Just nine months since the onset of the coronavirus crisis in Puerto Rico, the United States commonwealth on Tuesday became one of the first territories worldwide to launch a Covid-19 vaccination rollout. San Juan’s Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital was the first medical facility on the Caribbean island to start inoculating health professionals, followed by Hospital Damas and Hospital Episcopal San Lucas in Ponce and the Doctors Center Hospital in Carolina, among others. The campaign is to be extended to all of Puerto Rico’s 65 hospitals over the next few hours.