The "last mile" (getting shots into arms) seems to be the weak point right now, the major distribution of the vaccine to the states looks more than adequate so far. So if there is a shortage of people to give the shots and do all of the administrative tasks that go with that why not train an army of volunteers to do this? They would of course work under the supervision of a RN, APRN, or MD but it would require far fewer trained professions, who are badly needed elsewhere, then the current plan. During WWII we trained many thousands of "Rosie the riveter" women to work with complex machinery to produce planes, ships, tanks, and all sorts of weapons. They all had little or no experience doing the jobs they did before they were trained but did their jobs extremely well and helped win the war. It couldn't take that long to train someone to properly and safely do just one single thing which is to give the injections and deal with the paper work and other support tasks. Imagine a large convention center with 1000 volunteers taking care of "the last mile". Just thinking outside the box.
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