Source:  Marisa Mecke & Makaelah Walters, WATAUGA DEMOCRAT, 11/9/21

Farmworkers from all over the High Country lined up at Watauga County Agriculture Extension for their COVID-19 booster shot on Nov. 4. High Country Community Health partnered with the cooperative extension to bring a vaccine clinic to those who work in the area’s booming Christmas tree industry, from 8 a.m. to noon. County extension director Jim Hamilton said the clinic was prepared to vaccinate at least 103 farmworkers with the Johnson & Johnson booster shot.

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