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RED BLUFF, Calif. —  Jeremiah Fears sat beneath an elk head mounted on the wall of the volunteer fire department in his little city and rolled up his sleeve for what he hopes is a step toward normality: his first dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. “If we can get vaccinated and do our thing to protect one another and ourselves, we can hurry up and open and go from there,” said Fears, chief of the Corning Police Department. “I know there’s controversy behind it. But it is what it...

Fight against COVID-19 hits wall of defiance, suspicion in rural California: The excuses just go on Hailey Branson-Potts © Provided by The LA Times Chief Jeremiah Fears of the Corning Police Department registers with Hailey Nelson, the public health emergency preparedness coordinator in Tehama County, to get the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna on Jan. 6 at the Corning Volunteer Fire Department. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Jeremiah Fears sat beneath an elk head m...