CityLab Daily: Mobile Vaccine Squads Bring Shots to Most Needy
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One of Marin County’s mobile vaccine teams gets needles into arms at San Rafael Commons.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Jabs on wheels: Between scheduling appointments, navigating online portals and standing in long lines, getting a Covid-19 vaccine hasn’t been easy for many in the U.S. The challenges can be enough to deter some of the most vulnerable people, including the elderly, disabled and immunocompromised, from registering for one. So some cities are bringing the shots right to people’s doors.
Health departments are deploying mobile units equipped with nurses and emergency-medical technicians to places like long-term care facilities, low-income senior housing and underserved communities hard-hit by the pandemic. CityLab's Sarah Holder spent a day following a mobile vaccination team in Marin County, California, to get a look at the planning, coordination and dedication it takes to find and inoculate the hardest-to-reach Americans — especially in an area that has long held a reputation for being anti-vaccination. Today on CityLab: Mobile Vaccine Squad Has a Mission: Find and Protect the Neediest