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Trump-loving Alabama county faces uphill vaccination effort


Former President Trump speech at 2021 CPAC, Photo Date: February 28, 2021
Statistics show that Winston County ranks last in terms of people who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in Alabama, which has the country’s lowest inoculation rate.
Posted: Apr 8, 2021 5:00 PM
Posted By: Jay Reeves, Associated Press
HALEYVILLE, Ala. (AP) Tending a thrift store that displays a faded Trump flag in a nearly all-white Alabama county with a long history of going against the grain, Dwight Owensby is among the area s many skeptics of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Owensby, 77, said he doesn t often watch TV news or read the local paper, and he doesn t spend much time talking about the pandemic with others it s just not a big topic in this rural, heavily forested part of the state. But he suspects the coronavirus pandemic was planned, as a discredited conspiracy theory holds, and he said there s no way he s getting any shot. ....

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Trump-loving Alabama county faces uphill vaccination effort


He isn’t alone in Winston County, which ranks last in terms of people who have been fully vaccinated in a state that has the country’s lowest vaccination rate, according to federal statistics. To many here, the pandemic isn’t much of a concern. Businesses are open and relatively few people wear masks, even though Alabama’s rule requiring them to be worn in public wasn’t scheduled to end until Friday.
A Union stronghold where some pushed for secession from pro-slavery Alabama during the Civil War, Winston County is a prime example of a problem that health officials say they’ll have to overcome to end the pandemic: Many white conservatives such as Owensby aren’t lining up quickly enough for vaccines. ....

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