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One World, perhaps more than any other health provider in Nebraska, has made vaccination as quick, easy and omnipresent as possible to the residents in three South Omaha ZIP codes. It has thrown time, money, creativity and sweat equity at a problem vexing this country: How do you convince a sizable chunk of residents, many of them dubious and some downright hostile, to get a vaccine proven to minimize severe illness and death?
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Updated at 12:41 p.m. ET on May 10, 2021.
The little Havanese likes to sit in a window of the one-story house, looking out onto the quiet street in Boca Chica, Texas. From its perch, it can watch neighbors passing by, glossy black grackles pecking in the grass, and palm trees swaying in the breeze. The dog’s presence is usually a sign that its owner, Elon Musk, is in town. That, and the Tesla parked in the driveway.
There are other, more conspicuous signs that Musk has gotten comfortable in this remote part of South Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The hulking manufacturing tents just down the road. The steel strewn on the ground. The mechanical hum of machinery as workers in hard hats assemble spaceship after spaceship.