In White House vaccine distribution push, some rural areas fear being left behind
Story Date: 3/17/2021

 

Source: Shannon Pettypiece, NBC NEWS, 3/13/21

Each Friday afternoon for more than two months, the staff at the Heart of Texas Healthcare System in the rural town of Brady, Texas, have rehearsed what they will do when their first doses of Covid-19 vaccine arrive. They have the space at the town civic center ready to go, a plan for how they will let the public know when they can sign up for an appointment and staff trained to dole out the shots. Yet each week they put in their request for 500 doses from the state — and each week, just as with other rural hospitals across West Texas, the doses never arrive.

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