For some locals, insurance codes, supply issues, and canceled appointments are features of a new privatized vaccine system.

Oh, and flu shots too.

Maryland and Virginia are reserving vaccines for exposed individuals, while D.C. is offering appointments to targeted groups — but supply is limited.

“We know that we want our audience to have a lot of confidence coming into the building. And we don’t want to do anything that shakes that confidence.”

As of Tuesday, businesses in D.C. will no longer have to check that customers have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, and starting March 1, the indoor mask mandate will also be lifted.

Republicans have repeatedly invoked Nazism and the Holocaust to oppose pandemic-related policies, with the most recent invocation coming in response to D.C.’s upcoming vaccine mandate for businesses.

The Texas senator says only parents should get to decide if their kids get COVID-19 vaccine, despite D.C. and Texas requiring a host of other vaccines for kids going to school.

The tickets aren’t bad either.

School officials say they hope rapid testing will be able to keep more students in school.

Eight members of the D.C. Council are asking Mayor Muriel Bowser to do away with employees’ option to submit to weekly coronavirus testing instead of getting a shot.