Urban healthcare facilities in the nation’s population centers are capturing headlines as they distribute COVID-10 vaccines to front-line healthcare workers. Meanwhile, out of sight of new cameras, an extended distribution network will be rushing vaccines to another front in the nation’s efforts to stop the pandemic that has killed about 300,000 Americans.

Dodge Caravans packed with COVID-19 vaccines will soon be zipping across the rural Midwest, according to Business Insider. They'll be on their way to drop the precious vials at small, remote hospitals across a region that spans 200,000 square miles.

The vans, emblazoned with the logo of Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Sanford Health, are part of the rural healthcare system's courier network that typically ferries supplies, medications, and lab specimens.

Sanford's courier network will ensure COVID-19 vaccines reach the system's frontline healthcare workers — and later, the general public — in rural areas that are far from its big hospitals equipped with expensive, ultra-cold freezers that will store Pfizer vaccines.

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