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ALPENA, Mich. – Snow fell as Richard Bates opened the passenger door of his silver Honda pickup truck. He placed a blue cooler packed with 130 doses of coronavirus vaccine on the front seat and buckled it in.
For the next three hours he traversed more than 140 miles, from MidMichigan Medical Center-Midland in Midland, Mich., to a rural community hospital here. Bates instinctively put his arm out in front of the cooler to keep it from sliding off, as if it was a toddler in the front seat, when he slowed down or hit the brakes.
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