Shopping in times of corona: US man gets vaccine jab while buying groceries

Milk, bread, eggs, COVID-19 vaccine shot — this is what the grocery lists of the future would look like. Going for a casual trip to the grocery store to top-up his stocks, a
Washington law student also ended up topping-up his immunity as he was randomly
offered a COVID-19 vaccine shot, AFP reported.

David MacMillan and his friend were taken aback when a worker in the
pharmacy section of the Giant Food store offered them a shot last week.

A vaccine jab was surely not on their to-do list as they set out to the
grocery store. However, when given the opportunity, they decided to take it.

“It’s important that when there’s so much misinformation swirling,
that people are able to see that this is a good thing, this is a positive
thing. We should be excited about being able to deal with the pandemic,”
MacMillan told a local NBC News affiliate.

MacMillan posted a video of him getting the jab at TikTok, which
garnered 700,000 views as of Monday. He is expected to get his second dose
later this month.

The two boys were offered the vaccine because health care workers who
were originally supposed to get vaccinated, did not show up.

“The Moderna vaccine is valuable and lifesaving, and we are happy
to have not wasted it and given this couple each a dose,” a worker at the
grocery store said.

Currently, the vaccine is being administered on a priority basis, first
being given to emergency responders and other frontline workers.

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The Moderna vaccine must be kept at very cold temperatures and quickly
spoils once it has been removed from the freezer and its lid punctured.

America’s vaccination rollout has got off to a slower-than-anticipated
start, with 4.2 million people so far receiving initial doses of the two-dose
vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna — far below official predictions of
20 million by the New Year.