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Dentists, Podiatrists Join U S Vaccinator Army as Pace Quickens
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January 25, 2021
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2:42Now PlayingU.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.
“This is about saving lives,” said Joseph DiVincenzo Jr., the head of Essex County, New Jersey, government. “These people are coming out and being part of history.” He said at least 1,500 people have signed up for vaccination duty via his county’s Medical Reserve Corps, part of a network of about 800 U.S. volunteer call-up groups established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Record numbers of coronavirus patients are overwhelming the U.S. medical system, leaving few vaccination-certified doctors, nurses and others available for extra duty. At the same time, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s public-health preparedness and response funding in 2020 was $850 million, a 50% drop from a decade earlier, according to the Trust for America’s Health, a Washington-based nonpartisan research group.
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