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How a Rural Arkansas County Became a Vaccine Success Story

Demographics alone would suggest Bradley County should be struggling fiercely with local resistance against vaccines. But that’s not what happened.

A Covid-19 public health warning in the window of a doctor’s office in Warren, Arkansas. In Republican-leaning states all across America, infection and death rates have been outpacing areas that lean Democratic. — A Covid-19 public health warning in the window of a doctor’s office in Warren, Arkansas. In Republican-leaning states all across America, infection and death rates have been outpacing areas that lean Democratic.
Photographer: Brad Vest/Bloomberg

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By Kristen V Brown

September 28, 2021 at 8:00 AM UTC

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Demographics alone would suggest Bradley County, Arkansas, should be struggling fiercely with local resistance against vaccines, just as many other counties are all across the southern U.S.