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Karen Brooks Harper

State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. receiving a vaccination at the Doctors Hospital at Renaissance’s conference center in Edinburg, Texas, on Saturday.

Rio Grande Hospital Workers Turned Down the Vaccine. A Senator and a Sheriff’s Deputy Lined Up Instead.

So many workers at a hospital in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley declined the new COVID-19 vaccine that the facility offered doses to other medical workers in the region. It turns out, the vaccine ended up going to non-medical personnel as well.

by Vianna Davila, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune,