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A FedEx truck pulled into the Washoe County Health District’s parking lot first thing in the morning, greeted by a sidewalk crowded with the press.
It wasn’t a grand entrance of any sort. The 3,900 doses fit neatly into one box with an eye-catching bright pink label that read, “Priority Boarding.” This box was carefully placed on a dolly and rolled into the health district — nine months into the pandemic.
James English is with the health district. He said the arrival of the vaccine provided some relief.
“There’s been a lot of anxiety because there’s a lot of what-ifs, you don't know when it’s coming, we did not know when it [was] coming,” English said.