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The Latest: Mississippi pushing to vaccinate more Blacks

| January 21, 2021 5:03 PM

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi has opened a drive-thru site for coronavirus vaccinations in the state capital, which officials hope will make shots more accessible to African-Americans, who have received the vaccine in much smaller numbers than whites.

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