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With A Drop In Demand, Getting People COVID-19 Vaccines Will Be Up To Local Doctors

KERA | By Bret Jaspers

Published June 23, 2021 at 3:22 PM CDT

COVID-19 vaccine mega-sites across the U.S. are closing down due to the drop in demand for the shot. Much of the hard work of getting people vaccinated will now fall on primary care providers.

Bret Jaspers

Bret Jaspers is a reporter for KERA. His stories have aired nationally on the BBC, NPR’s newsmagazines, and APM’s Marketplace. He collaborated on the series Cash Flows, which won a 2020 Sigma Delta Chi award for Radio Investigative Reporting. He's a member of Actors' Equity, the professional stage actors union.

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