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Summoning seniors: Big new push to vaccinate older Americans

by Zeke MillerLeah Willingham
| April 7, 2021 4:09 PM

CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — The first hurdle was getting on the bus. Seventy-four year old Linda Busby hesitated outside a community center where older people were loading up to go get the coronavirus vaccine.

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