‘It didn’t really stick with me’: Understanding the rural shrug over COVID-19 and vaccines
Nationwide, a smaller share of rural residents say they will definitely get a COVID shot compared with their more urban counterparts.
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Sarah Jane Tribble / Kaiser Health News |
7:20 am, Apr. 6, 2021
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Seventy-year-old Linda Findley, who lives just outside of Fort Scott, Kan., says she won't get the COVID-19 vaccine. "How did they come up with a vaccine that quickly?" she says. "And how do they even know for sure that it's working?" Christopher Smith for KHN
FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- At 70, Linda Findley has long been active in her small town of Fort Scott, which sits more than an hour away from any major city.