Health
‘Pharmacy deserts’ leave rural Americans without vaccine options – Tampa Bay Times
Pharmacies and clinics are joining the nation’s vaccination campaign. What happens when rural Americans don’t live near one?
SURRY, Va. When Charlome Pierce searched where her 96-year-old father could get a COVID-19 vaccine in January, she found zero options anywhere near their home in Virginia. The lone medical clinic in Surry County had none, and the last pharmacy in an area with roughly 6,500 residents and more land mass than Chicago closed years ago.
To get their shots, some residents took a ferry across the sprawling James River to cities such as Williamsburg. Others drove more than an hour past farms and woodlands…
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