This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLate in the afternoon on New Year’s Day, David MacMillan and a friend were food shopping in D.C. when the supermarket’s pharmacist approached. She was closing in 10 minutes and had two doses of unused coronavirus vaccine. Were they interested? If not, she would have to discard the precious liquid.“It was random. I wasn’t expecting it. I wasn’t going to be eligible for the vaccine for months,” said MacMillan, a 31-year-old law student and employee at a law firm. “I figured July.”Within minutes, MacMillan and his friend...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLate in the afternoon on New Year’s Day, David MacMillan and a friend were food shopping in D.C. when the supermarket’s pharmacist approached. She was closing in 10 minutes and had two doses of unused coronavirus vaccine. Were they interested? If not, she would have to discard the precious liquid.“It was random. I wasn’t expecting it. I wasn’t going to be eligible for the vaccine for months,” said MacMillan, a 31-year-old law student and employee at a law firm. “I figured July.”Within minutes, MacMillan and his friend...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by D.C. lawmakers advocated for changing coronavirus vaccine policies Wednesday during a contentious meeting, saying White residents are edging out Black residents in vying for scarce appointments during the first week vaccines are being administered to seniors.Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt defended her department’s process for allocating vaccines, in which residents register...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by D.C. lawmakers advocated for changing coronavirus vaccine policies Wednesday during a contentious meeting, saying White residents are edging out Black residents in vying for scarce appointments during the first week vaccines are being administered to seniors.Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt defended her department’s process for allocating vaccines, in which residents register...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Rev. Liz Walker’s job is to minister to souls at Roxbury Presbyterian Church in Boston. But lately it’s her parishioners’ physical health — and their immune systems — keeping her up at night.Walker, a former journalist who was the first Black woman to co-anchor a newscast in Boston, was so troubled by her congregants’ suspicion of a coronavirus vaccine that she asked Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert, to And he did. In an online forum for which more than 2,800 people signed up, Fauci...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Rev. Liz Walker’s job is to minister to souls at Roxbury Presbyterian Church in Boston. But lately it’s her parishioners’ physical health — and their immune systems — keeping her up at night.Walker, a former journalist who was the first Black woman to co-anchor a newscast in Boston, was so troubled by her congregants’ suspicion of a coronavirus vaccine that she asked Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert, to And he did. In an online forum for which more than 2,800 people signed up, Fauci...WW…