For the last week, paramedic Melissa Peddie has fielded them back-to-back for cases of COVID-19.
Peddie
runs the only ambulance in Liberty County, a sprawling, sparsely populated community in Florida’s rural Big Bend,
where as of last week just 23.9% of residents were fully vaccinated. The county has seen a dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases during July, mirroring
other communities across the nation where many people
have not gotten the shot.
Peddie, 51, is among the small minority. For her, vaccination was a “no-brainer.”
“I knew I would get the vaccine,” she said. “Every day I climb in the back of that truck is a risk.
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