Vaccine disparities pit rural and urban America against each other - Entrepreneur Generations

"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," Travis Loller, Jonathan Mattise and Gillian Flaccus report for The Associated Press. "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."

Part of the problem is that the federal government provided vaccine eligibility guidelines but ultimately gave states the authority to distribute the vaccine. Many states went on to give authority to county governments over distributions, sometimes resulting in large disparities, AP reports.

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