Kicker - Dracula joins vaccine campaign

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Well, Dracula never had to worry about getting Covid.

But the castle in Romania thought to have inspired the novel Dracula is set to deliver a different sort of bite.

Every weekend this month, you can get a skin puncture via vaccine without an appointment just outside the castle. You’ll get a vaccination diploma, illustrated with a fanged medical worker brandishing a syringe! You’ll also get free entry into the 14th-century fortress.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: How cool to be able to say, “I went to Transylvania and got the shot at Dracula’s castle!”

REICHARD: Right? And take comfort that it's not a stake through the heart. Just the shot.

BROWN: True that!

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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