'We're going to take care of you, okay?' In Alabama, the scramble to get vaccines to the people....

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2. :) Cahaba had greatness thrust upon them, all right.

And all those mostly very poor and elderly people who'd been looking for vaccinations for months. Good article. Thanks, COL Mustard. I'd passed on it in the paper.

In Alabama, it began with the decision by the state health department, weakened by years of budget cuts, to outsource most of the responsibility to community health organizations with experience serving the neediest areas. That was the idea.

The reality was that while Cahaba’s leaders expected that the state would send them vaccines at some point for their own patients, the first clue that they were expected to conduct vaccinations on a massive scale came on Jan. 6, when a box of 1,800 doses arrived at one of their clinics, the word “vaccine” stamped on the side.