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Mobile Vaccine Squad Has a Mission: Find and Protect the Neediest
In Marin County, Linda Dobra and her team race the variants and bring shots to the people
One of Marin County’s mobile vaccine teams gets needles into arms at San Rafael Commons.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergLinda Dobra ducked under the trellis and knocked on the door, holding a plastic bin with two syringes, alcohol wipes and adhesive bandages. The apartment at Rotary Valley Senior Village was unlocked and the television was blaring.
Dobra, who leads a mobile vaccination team in Marin County, California, peeked in to find Patricia Krantzler, 90. Enveloped in a pink corduroy La-Z-Boy, she was frail, slightly deaf and perfectly made up.