Inside One of America’s Vaccine Deserts
How rural areas could affect our Covid-19 immunity
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13 min readApr 1, 2021
Along a winding roadway festooned with lanky longleaf pines, a sign welcomes you to Meadville, Mississippi, population 519.
“Oh, we’re bigger than that,” says Cynthia Ann Wilkinson, a Mississippi State Extension agent, to the journalist who mentioned the sign in passing. Her co-worker…