You walk into the vaccination centre at the Palais des congrès, Montreal’s downtown convention centre, and the operation is almost like a dance. 

Soon, the vaccine’s in your arm and you are on your way. From afar, it looks like a well-oiled operation, with people gliding from one table to the next.

But it’s the complex organization behind the scenes — including the preparation of vaccines, dose by dose — that makes it possible. 

“Every morning, the first thing I do when I get