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On Sunday evening, Liz Ruskin decided she’d procrastinated her grocery shopping trip long enough and dragged herself to the nearest Safeway. She made her way through the crowded aisles, annoyed she hadn’t mustered up the will to shop earlier, when it might have been quieter. As she was reaching for canned sockeye salmon, a voice came over the store’s loudspeaker. “They made this announcement that the pharmacy had leftover vaccine I think the term they used was ‘extra vaccine’ and that if you were interested in getting a vaccine, you should go to the pharmacy.”
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Before the announcement was finished, Ruskin was already walking toward the pharmacy, cans of salmon and coconut milk still in her hands, and queued up in a line with about 15 other people. The dominant mood, she said, was excitement, but she also wondered whether what she was doing was right. Ruskin, a Washington correspondent for Alaska Public Radio, is 55, and she knew she did not belong to any