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COVID vaccine in Texas: Rural communities see fewer vaccines


CUERO Three weeks after Sandra Brazil received her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, it was her 90-year-old mother s turn. They drove the 17 miles together from their home in Yoakum to Cuero, where Josephine Brazil got a shot  and a glimmer of hope of seeing her son and other family members again.
It is a blessing, Brazil said as she waited for her mother outside of the Cuero Municipal Park Clubhouse on a recent Friday. I was praying and asking for a solution for the people so that we wouldn t have so many casualties.  
She was among 100 DeWitt County residents to receive the first dose of the Moderna vaccine at a mobile vaccination unit, one of 15 dispatched by state health officials to rural areas with little or no access to vaccines. Still, despite the effort, the vaccine landscape is much different in small-town Texas than in the state s big cities. ....

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