Nancy Phillips is ready to drive four hours to and from Buffalo for one sole reason: to get the Pfizer COVID vaccine.

Despite calling five pharmacies and prodding several public health agencies, the 61-year-old York University PhD student has had no luck in finding the shot.

Pharmacies and health-care providers are seeing high demand for the Pfizer vaccine, yet many have not seen a shipment from the pharmaceutical company in weeks. The drug company says there is no shortage but there are some measures to ensure equitable distribution that have been put in.

“Even if I have to pay for it, I’d be more willing to go to Buffalo to get Pfizer than to take Moderna,” she said. When Phillips first got the Moderna vaccine, she describes being bedridden for two days, with a high fever, aches and

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