By the time vaccines for the coronavirus were introduced late last year, the pandemic had taken two of Lucenia Williams Dunn’s close friends. Still, Dunn, a former mayor of Tuskegee, contemplated for months whether to be inoculated.

Why many Black Americans changed their minds about Covid shots

There were only six tiny vials of coronavirus vaccine in the refrigerator, one Air Force nurse on duty and a trickle of patients on Saturday morning at a federally run mass vaccination site here.

With mass vaccination sites winding down, it’s all about the ‘ground game’

Gabby Garcia did not expect to feel like crying when she sat down for her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. But as the long needle pierced her skin, she thought back to the agonizing outbreak in her family that killed her sister, hospitalized her brother and also left her ill for days.

Many parts of the US needed persuading to get vaccinated, not south Texas

Out of its target to fulfil 20 million coronavirus vaccinations, only about 2.8 million Americans had received a COVID-19 vaccine going into the last day of December.

US falling short of coronavirus vaccination target by a wide margin