The Rural/Urban Divide Comes for Vaccines

Associated Press: “The U.S. vaccine campaign has heightened tensions between rural and urban America, where from Oregon to Tennessee to upstate New York complaints are surfacing of a real — or perceived — inequity in vaccine allocation.”

“In some cases, recriminations over how scarce vaccines are distributed have taken on partisan tones, with rural Republican lawmakers in Democrat-led states complaining of ‘picking winners and losers,’ and urbanites traveling hours to rural GOP-leaning communities to score COVID-19 shots when there are none in their city.”