# How does vaccine distribution work? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [November 23, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-vaccine-distribution-work/926275 "2020-11-23T16:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 132
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Not a great idea. The U.S. military stopped using jet injectors in 1997 due to concerns about blood-borne disease transmission due to splash-back. We actually discussed them a few weeks ago here: > [@Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-breaking-news/847758/5566): > > I got a mandatory flu shot while in Navy training using an [injector gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector). IIRC, the gun used high-pressure compressed air to inject the vaccine directly though the skin. Then I heard a rumor (urban legend?) about some guy who flinched when he was injected, and it cut his arm open. So after that I always requested a vaccine with a needle instead (and my request was honored because by then I was in the fleet and no longer in training). A few years later, they learned there could be cross-contami… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-vaccine-distribution-work/926275)._