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Older adults leave a vaccination site located inside the Fort Washington Avenue Armory on a bus operated by a senior center in New York. Many older adults and low-income people lack transportation to Covid-19 vaccine sites.(AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Jane Campbell is frustrated.
Campbell, the town commissioner in Davidson, North Carolina, worries that some of her constituents, especially older adults, don’t have a way to get to Covid-19 vaccine sites.
From Davidson, the nearest locations for anyone seeking a shot have been at mass vaccination events in the Charlotte area more than a half hour away, Campbell said. For many older adults who needed transportation, that was too far.
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