vaccine shopping

• vaccine-shopping

Compare shop around (“to actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor”).

vaccine shopping (uncountable)

1. (neologism) The practice of seeking out a certain vaccine that one considers to be superior to other available options, and refusing those other options.
   • 2021 March 1, Robert Weisman, “State officials, community leaders try to dissuade residents from vaccine ‘shopping’”, in The Boston Globe‎:

     Because vaccines remain in short supply in the United States, there’s been little evidence of vaccine shopping. But preferences have cropped up in Europe, driven partly by nationalism […] and partly by a hunt for the most effective shot possible.