When it was time for his second COVID-19 shot in early April, Steve Baltazar made the round trip from his home in Battle Ground to Vancouver’s Tower Mall mass vaccination site by bicycle.
“It was going to be one of the nicest days for cycling, so I thought, gotta do it!” Baltazar, road captain for the Vancouver Bicycle Club, told me in email.
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