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TUMON, Guam — Passport: check. Coronavirus test: negative. Temperature: normal. Wearing an N95 mask and face shield, Jimmy Lin lugged his bag full of instant noodles and beachwear out of Guam’s modest airport one recent afternoon... ...Like thousands of Asian tourists who have visited this American outpost in the Pacific since early this summer, Lin was in Guam to get his preferred coronavirus shots — Pfizer-BioNTech’s messenger-RNA doses — under a vaccine tourism initiative designed to offset pandemic losses.... ...“I’m a vaccine snob,” said Lin, who got his first Pfizer shot on Aug. 3 through Guam’s government-sponsored “vacation and vaccination,”...

Wealthy Mexican nationals are coming to the United States to get their coronavirus vaccinations amid the disastrous vaccine rollout in Mexico. “They just told you that those in the line who were older than 65 were going to get vaccinated,” said 70-year-old Mexican citizen Mauricio Fernandez, who used his passport as ID when getting vaccinated. “It’s very generous that the Americans could include everyone who was in the line, undocumented migrants, Mexicans, whoever. They weren’t saying ‘this person yes, and this person no.’” Fernandez received his dose of the vaccine in Texas while on vacation with friends, a trend that...