Finding an open appointment to get the Covid-19 vaccine was a headache, so Fran Goldman, 90, would not be intimidated by a little snow. The walk was five kilometers in each direction. She dressed in layers and picked up canes. “It wasn’t easy,” Goldman told the Seattle Times. “It was a challenge.”
Did we mention that she changed her hips last year? But a walk in the snow will be worthwhile for two great-grandchildren. “I can’t wait to be able to hold them,” Goldman told the newspaper. There is now an antidote to articles on public skepticism about vaccines. Research last year showing hesitation was noteworthy, but two months after the start of America’s vaccination program, the story is about demand.
Here is another one, although not as uplifting. In Florida, which is prioritizing people aged 65 and over, two women aged 34 and 44 went to an Orange County immunization center “dressed as grandparents,” an official said on Thursday. This made national headlines, although it is not clear whether it was overblown.
The body camera video released on Friday shows little disguise, but both women wore masks and glasses, and one was wearing a gray hat. That said, women “changed their birth years in vaccination records to bypass the state system,” reported Orlando Sentinel. Apparently, they had already received the first dose of the vaccine, but the second was denied and warnings of invasion were issued.
A heroic and malicious story. However, both are good signs of the demand for vaccines, since the end of this pandemic depends on obtaining millions more vaccines in millions of arms.