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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)

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Have Vaccines, Will Travel: On the Road With a Covid Entrepreneur
August 24, 2021 7 a.m.

Have Vaccines, Will Travel: On the Road With a Covid Entrepreneur

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.