Have Vaccines, Will Travel: On the Road With a Covid Entrepreneur
Kyle Austin, a pharmacist who started a mobile clinic during the pandemic, administered 20 covid vaccines on a recent Saturday in Virginia City, a town of roughly 120 year-round residents. His business model is to collect vaccine stragglers as he makes a circuit through Montana. (Katheryn Houghton/KHN)
Madison County Health Director Emilie Sayler (left) and Virginia City Mayor Justin Gatewood asked for a traveling pharmacist to come to the town of 120. Virginia City teens otherwise would have had to drive at least 100 miles round trip to get a COVID-19 vaccine. (Katheryn Houghton/KHN)
VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. — While many businesses in this southwestern Montana “ghost town” reel in tourists with its mining and Wild West vigilante past, one businessman arrived offering a modern product: COVID-19 vaccines....
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