5:28 pm UTC Jan. 28, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO – Jim Stephens got the text at 8 p.m. and was so excited he couldn t sleep. He had an appointment the next morning to get a COVID-19 vaccine at the city s first mass vaccination clinic.
The 76-year-old drove up after it opened at 8 a.m. and was waved into a line of cars flowing
slowly but steadily through a temporary chain-link fence. He drove along a line of volunteers, making choreographed stops.
First, his appointment paperwork was checked. At the next checkpoint, he was given a surgical mask. A few feet farther, a volunteer went over possible side effects.