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What if there was an easy way to shorten the window to full COVID-19 vaccination and herd immunity by as many as 100 days, and potentially save 150,000-to-200,000 lives?
There is: just let people get their COVID vaccines at their primary care doctors' offices, suggests Jack Westfall, MD, MPH, director of the Robert Graham Center at the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). "You don't sit out your best player in the big game, yet that's where primary care sits in terms of vaccine distribution," Westfall said last week at an online event on the state of primary care.