Opinion: Primary care practices could be the Biden administration’s secret weapon in the fight against Covid-19
For a small-town physician, being given a supply of the Covid-19 vaccine can make a world of difference.
In Cut Off, La., 30 of primary care physician Gary Birdsall’s patients have died from Covid-19. In his small rural community, they were neighbors and friends. So when a shipment of the Moderna vaccine arrived at his practice, it changed everything. As he described it to a reporter, the vaccine “put some degree of power back in my hands to prevent some of the illness I’m seeing.”
