When trying to decide if her 7-year-old granddaughter, Alice, could be seen in person by her health care team, the first thing Sarah Wacker asked was whether they’d all been vaccinated.

Alice needs weekly physical and occupational therapy to treat her multiple sclerosis. When the pandemic hit, these essential in-person treatments were no longer safe. So they switched to Zoom.

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