These are states that we will remember from last year, were resistant to shutting down their still resistant to mask mandates. Did it surprise you at all as a reporter that they were resistant to getting the vaccine? You know, i'll say that the resistance and the low vaccination rate wasn't surprising to me as a reporter and also as someone who grew up in jackson, mississippi. There's not as much of a robust health cartinfo structure here. A lot of hospital closures over the last decade. Not as much engagement with the medical establishment.
Covid-19 is surging so high in several states, you’d think we didn’t have a vaccine. A Mississippi nurse who was initially skeptical explains her path to getting the shot.
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