
In rural Georgia, a door-to-door push to get neighbors vaccinated against Covid-19
CNN
In rural Randolph County, Georgia, the Covid-19 vaccination rate is well below the state average -- and Georgia's rate is among the lowest in the country. So volunteers organized their own centrally located vaccine clinic and went door to door to talk with their neighbors.
As they walked in the hot spring sun this April and May, these four have another mission. They are using their powers of persuasion to get more neighbors to take the Covid-19 vaccine.
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