![]() ![]() By February 2021, as the vaccine became available to a broader swath of Americans, I heard about one venture capitalist worth billions getting a job as an Uber driver, considered an “essential worker” in one of the first phases of the rollout, to skip to the front of the line. ![]() Some simply accompanied an older person and pretended to be their caregiver. (In Silicon Valley, the going price was $3,000, according to one person who was offered a slot.) Others posed as medical workers by producing fake letters of employment or buying fake IDs online. Some “line jumpers,” as they were called, paid a substantial sum to get a spot. In December of last year, as a thin trickle of COVID-19 vaccines made their way across the United States and into the hands of doctors, nurses, and frontline health care workers, the most impatient-and often most entitled-Americans began to devise ways to get a shot before it was their turn.
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