Coming soon to a Dollar General near you: coronavirus vaccines? - Entrepreneur Generations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is exploring a partnership to administer coronavirus vaccines at Dollar General stores. Dollar General is one of the nation's largest retailers and has considerable rural presence, Nathan Bomey reports for USA Today.

"As of August 2020, Dollar General had more than 16,720 stores in 46 states, according to Dollar General’s website," Liz Carey reports for The Daily Yonder. "That’s nearly twice the number of stores as the next largest private retailer working on vaccine rollout. The company said that 75 percent of all Americans live within five miles of a Dollar General store, and that 75 percent of its stores serve communities with fewer than 20,000 people in them."

"In rural areas, residents often don't have access to big-box stores," CDC director  Rochelle Walensky said at the Health Action Alliance's virtual National Business Summit on Tuesday. "We're exploring a promising collaboration with Dollar General stores, which have locations that include refrigeration capacity within 10 or 15 miles of our rural communities in all but four states."

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