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Around here, you can get vaccinated in the grocery store, at the pharmacy counter. I imagine that not all groceries stores have a pharmacy though (but all the ones near me do). Same thing for Walgrens stores - you can get vaccinated there. And they are going out to vaccinate people where they live too, but I only know about that happening at senior living places. I don't think they go to individual houses (yet).
It would not be workable to try to go out to everybody's individual house. We just don't have the resources. We will continue to need group vaccination areas. I'm thinking churches, community centers, and the like. Not an hours commute to some downtown stadium parking lot (there are plenty of those now, but they're of limited use for some recipients). For specific individuals, at home vaccination might be the only choice. And we should support that as much as possible. The logistics of super cold storage requirements and limited viability of the vaccine after opening the multi-dose vials (with Pfizer and Moderna) made vaccination at home mostly impossible. But with the Johnson & Johnson becoming available now, that should open up a lot of new doors for vaccine distribution. I'm not sure you can leave a J&J shot just laying out in the open for long, but apparently you can do that for longer than you can with Pfizer or Moderna.
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