| If everything goes according to plan, the U.S. will have a Covid-19 vaccine approved late this year or next. After clearing that daunting scientific hurdle, the country will face a logistical one: how to get the shots to millions of Americans as the pandemic's disruption of normal routines persists. For health officials, this year's flu vaccine campaign is a dry run for delivering an eventual Covid-19 inoculation. In Denver, public-health officials plan to send "strike teams" into schools to administer both flu shots and childhood vaccines. They also are rolling out mobile flu shot clinics that can pull up at construction sites to inoculate workers, as well as campaigns targeted at hard-to-reach communities, including people who are homeless. "This whole model that we're building can then be moved into Covid," said Judith Shlay, a physician and associate director at Denver Public Health. Pharmacy chains expect to administer up to twice the amount of flu shots they normally do. Some retailers are planning outdoor flu shot deliveries in tents or drive-throughs, drawing from their experience performing Covid tests in similar settings. Even those that are welcoming people inside say this will help prepare them for a vaccine rollout. "Flu season will allow us to continue to sharpen our skills on immunizing with PPE," said Jocelyn Konrad, Rite Aid Corp.'s chief pharmacy officer, adding it will also give the drugstore a list of people to target once a Covid shot becomes available.  Photographer: JOEL SAGET/AFP Photographer: JOEL SAGET/AFP The medical and public-health communities are trying to increase confidence in vaccines broadly, to reassure worried patients about their safety and counter harmful misinformation that proliferates on social media. One-third of Americans in one Gallup survey said they wouldn't take an FDA-approved Covid vaccine. The stakes are high for flu season. The country has almost 200 million doses on the way to clinics and pharmacies. If America succeeds in getting a vast share of the population inoculated against influenza, that will protect people from illness and death and help avert a collision of flu and Covid that could swamp hospitals. But if the U.S. fails to get enough people immunized to stem the flu, it won't bode well for any Covid vaccine we may get.—John Tozzi and Angelica LaVito | 
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