February 26, 2021 Jeb Bladine: A scavenger hunt for vaccine access The law of supply and demand describes an economic interplay of price and production. With COVID-19 vaccines, however, limited supply plus boundless demand created an understandable scavenger hunt for life-saving vaccinations. Many vaccination clinics for designated people have ended with insider access to leftover vaccine. That process, despite being unfair, has been accepted because those doses otherwise would have been discarded. Whatchamacolumn The scavenger hunt played out at clinics for Oregon’s priority list of vaccine recipients: first responders; health care workers and caregivers; justice system workers; K-12 educators and staff; Native Americans; and now, finally, people age 65 and older.