Rural US Is Seriously Short on Resources Needed to Distribute Vaccine
A health worker administers a vaccine to a patient in their vehicle during the first day of mass Moderna COVID-19 vaccinations in Broadbent Arena at the Kentucky State Fair and Exposition Center on January 4, 2021, in Louisville, Kentucky.
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One afternoon this past December, a package arrived at Mora Valley Community Health Services in northern New Mexico. The rural clinic, which serves a county of 4,521 people, is nestled beside a pasture with a flock of chickens and a few goats. A mile up the road sits the town of Mora a regional hub just big enough for a trio of restaurants, two gas stations, and a single-building satellite office for a nearby community college.
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A school bus drives along Main Street in Bucksport, Maine. In the background is the lone remaining smokestack of the local paper mill, which employed more than 500 people but closed abruptly just before Christmas in 2014. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report
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