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Here comes the vaccine army, with new-to-the-needle volunteers Elise Young, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail 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. ....
Dozens of New Yorkers were turned away after a miscommunication over vaccine availability. | Amanda Eisenberg/ POLITICO Vaccine miscommunication results in chaotic scene in Brooklyn A message that may have been intended for a select few went viral Thursday evening, prompting New Yorkers from at least three boroughs to rush to Sunset Park s Brooklyn Army Terminal in the hopes of getting leftover Covid-19 vaccines. Please share: We need to give out 410 doses in next 4hours at Brooklyn Army Terminal (by 7pm), taking anyone in community age 18+, walk ins, or earlier than scheduled, the text read, which was shared on Facebook and Twitter and prompted hundreds to descend upon the warehouse complex hoping to get inoculated. ....