Kyle Austin, a pharmacist who started a mobile clinic during the pandemic, administered 20 COVID-19 vaccines on a recent Saturday in Virginia City, Mont., 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/Kaiser Health News)
August 17, 2021
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August 17, 2021 7:55 a.m.
Have vaccines, will travel: On the road with a COVID entrepreneur
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.